82410 - Remove Arrows from BM's and History Sidebar Panels

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Remove Arrows from BM's and History Sidebar Panels.  

Do we really need to have the directional arrows for Bookmarks Panel and the 
History Sidebar panel, it's pushing out the content especially in that tight 
space and I'm needing to resize my sidebar to really use either bookmarks panel 
or history panel.

So existing is this for History:
Arrow/Folder/Name of Folder
      Arrow/Folder/Domain Name
                  /Bookmark Icon/Name of Page

Existing for Bookmarks:
Arrow/Folder/Name of Folder
            /Bookmark Icon/Name of page
or 
Arrow/Folder/Name of Folder
            /Folder/Name of Folder
                   /Bookmark Icon/Name of page
-------------------
So proposed is:            
Folder/Name of Folder
      /Folder/Domain Name
             /Bookmark Icon/Name of Page

Existing for Bookmarks:
Folder/Name of Folder
      /Bookmark Icon/Name of page
or 
Folder/Name of Folder
      /Folder/Name of Folder
             /Bookmark Icon/Name of page


So the question is, is the closed/open folder enough of a visual cue or do we 
need to have that arrow in there?  Visual cue vs. More space for content.  I'm 
voting for more space for content.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I dunno about that. I don't think we have a `closed/open folder ... visual 
cue', because when you open the sidebar the first time none of the folders are 
open -- they're all closed. And then when a beginning user clicked on a folder, 
nothing would happen, and there'd be no obvious way (like a twisty) of opening 
it. Eventually they'd work out the double-clickiness, but by then they might 
have gotten frustrated or given up altogether. And that's before we get on to 
the inconsistency between this and other folder trees in Mozilla.

Perhaps we could do this, if we were obviously visually and behaviorally 
different from other trees as well -- e.g. if folders (and bookmarks/history 
items) opened and closed with a single click, and if they were all underlined. 
Comments?

Comment 2

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

Reporter marking invalid