981398 - Make it possible to control the sidebar width

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 919117

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Making it easier to control the sidebar width seems doable.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22241388/controlling-firefox-add-on-sdk-sidebar-width

Comment 1

[Ben McCann]

Thanks for filing this bug Erik! A huge +1 from me. This is a big issue for my company

Comment 2

[Farooq Mela]

+1 This is a pain point for our add-on. It would great if we could control this.

Comment 3

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

It seems to me a duplicate of bug 919117, that is a WONTFIX.
Dave, is your last comment about that still valid (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919117#c9)?

Comment 4

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

Seems doablje, but according to the github:

"KNOWN BUG:
If you install this demo addon, and also have the firefox facebox messenger service sidebar visible:
If you open the facebook social messenger bar, and you click and drag one splitter, it resizes both sidebars, the facebook messenger and also the sidebar add by this addon..."

I think there are two blockers for this:

1. we wontfixed a similar issue because we don't think add-on developers should be able to set the width of the sidebar - all other sidebars in Firefox work this way, ours should be consistent with the UX guidelines and related implementations.

2. obviously even if UX was okay with arbitrarily wide sidebars, the add-ons sidebar width could not have side-effects like the linked code does.

Mossop: IMO this is a dupe of bug 919117

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The demo code there creates a whole new sidebar element, not using the one that is a part of Firefox. We use Firefox's because it is the main sidebar element and that is what all other Firefox sidebars use. Unless we have reasons to move away from that this is a dupe.

Comment 6

[Ben McCann]

Yes, I very much agree that the side-effects are undesirable. Perhaps we could open a new bug to address that? It seems to occur only for legacy technical reasons and not a conscious UI decision. I can understand why resizing a sidebar would be frustrating given this global sidebar width setting.