81623 - 'Auto Hide' Menu and status bars

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 68136

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Lee]

Now that we have the my side bar at the left all the time (The 3 or 4 pixeles
when it is 'hidden'). It would be nice to have a screen enlarging feature that
allows the menu bars to 'auto hide' and become tabs on or in line with the my
side bar border. then a mouse over the tab would result in the menu scroling out
and being available for use.
This 'auto hide' could be extended to the my side bar and any other screen real
estate user.

Comment 1

[Ken Harris]

When it's hidden, it's hidden, i.e., not there.  When I hide it (Windows,
Linux), it goes away.  What platform/version doesn't allow this?

Comment 2

[Jason Johnston]

He's talking about the toolbars being able to "collapse" to the left edge of the
screen.  So all you'd see would be tabs on the left edge.  When you moused over
the tabs the toolbar would expand out.  Kind of like the "kicker" concept in KDE
and Gnome, or Autohide with the Windows taskbar.

This would require a very extensive rebuild of the xul structure (toolbars would
have to become popupmenus, etc) with little or no gain in usability.  We already
have collapsing toolbars anyway, just not exactly like Chris wants.

Comment 3

[timeless]

Reporter: there's a bug for kiosk mode and another for full screen, please 
check those out.

I actually think your feature is separate although probably useful for them.

Comment 4

[:deanis74]

For reference:
  bug 3341  - "Kiosk mode"
  bug 68136 - "Mozilla should have a Full-screen mode"

The full screen bug talks about auto-hiding toolbars.  I think this could be 
marked as a dupe of that bug.

Comment 5

[Keyser Sose]

Duping

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68136 ***

Comment 6

[:deanis74]

i'm down wit dat