933175 - Clipboard and zoom are too prominent in the default Australis menu layout

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 878065

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

Just filing a bug to get some discussion on this. I feel like having clipboard and zoom buttons at the top of the menu is giving too much prominence to a no-so-relevant set of actions. The visual style of these buttons (i.e. they don't the same flat style than the other buttons) make them stand out even more.

A couple of possible solutions:
- Make the style of these buttons a little less different than the others. Maybe flatten them a bit and make their color a bit less contrasty?
- Move them down to the bottom of the menu?

I apologize if this was discussed before. In any case, I'm curious about the rationale behind the current default layout.

Comment 1

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Lucas, thanks for filing this; you make a fair point!

I'm currently working on bug 878065, which'll make the edit and zoom controls less of an eye-catcher. The end result will look more or less like http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups-interactive/australis-interactive-mockups/windows8.html (depending on your OS, of course).

I'm inclined to duplicate this bug to bug 878065, what do you think?

Comment 2

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

(In reply to Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer] from comment #1)
> Lucas, thanks for filing this; you make a fair point!
> 
> I'm currently working on bug 878065, which'll make the edit and zoom
> controls less of an eye-catcher. The end result will look more or less like
> http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups-interactive/australis-
> interactive-mockups/windows8.html (depending on your OS, of course).

That looks much better indeed :-)

> I'm inclined to duplicate this bug to bug 878065, what do you think?

The other aspect of this bug was about the position of the zoom and clipboard widgets in the menu. If keeping them at the top is a set-in-stone design decision at this point, feel free to duplicate it.

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Lucas Rocha (:lucasr) from comment #2)
> (In reply to Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer] from comment #1)
> > Lucas, thanks for filing this; you make a fair point!
> > 
> > I'm currently working on bug 878065, which'll make the edit and zoom
> > controls less of an eye-catcher. The end result will look more or less like
> > http://people.mozilla.org/~shorlander/mockups-interactive/australis-
> > interactive-mockups/windows8.html (depending on your OS, of course).
> 
> That looks much better indeed :-)
> 
> > I'm inclined to duplicate this bug to bug 878065, what do you think?
> 
> The other aspect of this bug was about the position of the zoom and
> clipboard widgets in the menu. If keeping them at the top is a set-in-stone
> design decision at this point, feel free to duplicate it.

Alright, I'm going to dupe this then. If you want to talk about the rationales, posting to firefox-dev or asking in #ux on IRC is probably a better approach.