92077 - [RFE][4xp] Floating Component Bar

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[[e-mail]]

Just filing this to see what sort of interest I get...

Comment 1

[Dwayne]

Sheesh, nicely put.  I read the short descrip and immediately thought:  "People
use that?"

For the hell of it, putting Platform/OS -> All.

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

Nobody used that crap in NS. When i installed it the first thing i did was to
turn it off! There is a reason the browser has icons in the status bar below,
you know...

Comment 3

[James Paige]

Adding my Anti-vote!
I have lost count of how many times on how many computers I have turned off that
bloddy thing

Comment 4

[Alex Bishop]

I used the floating component bar. Once. Last August. You see, I was hovering
over a link with a really long URL that I needed to see, so I enabled the
floating component bar temporarily to give me more space for text in the status
bar. The rest of the time I hate it though. It should never be brought back. Ever.

Comment 5

[sam th]

I hate this feature too, but I've had at least one report from a user that they
were **** when Netscape 6.1 didn't have that feature.  I can't imagine why.  

Comment 6

[Alfonso Martinez]

This could be handled just by fixing bug 47418

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Give me a reason to do this.

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

There don't appear to be any :-)

Comment 9

[Michael Sinz]

Well, I like being able to open a browser window on whatever desktop I am on
without having to reload Mozilla or switching to a desktop in order to find an
existing window and then opening a new window and moving it back to the desktop
I want to be working on.

This way I can have the various projects with their own Mozilla window at all
times.

The real trick here is that Mozilla starts too slowly.  If it would start at the
same speed as clicking on the floating tool bar to open a new window then there
would be no need for this feature as I could then use my own tool bar from
whatever Window Manager I wish to use.

Ahh well, I guess there is no reason to make this a feature you can use.  After
all, you all don't want to use it and heaven forbid that there is a feature that
you don't use built into Mozilla.

Comment 10

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 189900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[A.J. Moraal]

I *do* want it. I kept using Communicator until now, just because the floating
component bar. The component bar is not only shortcuts to start the components,
but also a New Mail warning for me. So it's very useful.