85440 - Should remember user's last preference panel

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77855

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Meyer]

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BuildID:    20010605

Everytime I bring up the preference panel, the 'Navigator' category is selected.
It should remember my last category that I was using.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Preference Panel.
2.Select Font Category.
3.Close Preference Panel.
4.Open Preference Panel again.

Actual Results:  Navigator category is selected.

Expected Results:  Font category should be selected (since that was the last one
I used).

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->ben, doesn't this rfe already exist? couldn't find it, tho...

confirming as rfe.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->ben

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Why would this be useful?  We currently open the appropriate panel for each app 
(Navigator for the browser, Mail and News for Mail, etc.).  Most users won't be 
accessing prefs too often, this doesn't seem like a big deal.

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

What if you change something, discover it's not to your taste or needs further
modification and need to play with it some more? Session-bound persistence would
be a minimal requirement. Copying Simon Fraser

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

If you measured people's frequency of trips to the prefs dialog, and which 
panels, they opened, I'm sure you'd find that > 50% of the time, people go back 
to the panel they were last at. This is the well-known UI technique of 'keeping 
things the way the user last left them'.

See also bug 77855.

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Agreed. Everything about the prefs dialog should be the way it was when I left 
it -- the currently selected panel, the twisty state, the scroll position of 
the category list, and of course the prefs themselves.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 90534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

dup. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77855 ***

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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