Re: [Usability] Compliance to GNOME UI Patterns of Cross-Platform Apps

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

 On 09/01/2010 09:12 AM, DmD Ljungmark wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 15:06 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote:
> > Mozilla is coming up with a new Add-ons Manager UI for Firefox. I was
> > asked
> > what Linux-specific stuff should be designed and how much should be
> > specified, because the look and feel depends on the DE's settings. I
> > said
> > that all I can think of at that time is that it should follow the GTK+
> > "skinning" of XUL like how other XUL elements do it, because the
> > Add-ons
> > Manager doesn't yet (in Firefox 4.0 Beta 4).
> Hi, I'm wondering about the two-gear button, in the upper right next to
> the Search interface.  It doesn't look like any other button around it
> has rounded corners, icons not aligned to the borders of the button,
> different horizontal height compared to the search field.
Working on that.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584006#c14
> The main list "Name" and "Last Updated" should probably be a "real" list
> (compare to a mail client/file manager) to indicate sorting, with the
> arrow up/down for sorting rather than shading the background.
Hm, maybe. Can you add a comment about to 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590175 ?

> What significance does the left/right arrow in the upper-ish left part
> have?   They _seem_ to control the tab you have active, but does it do
> something else?   Why doesn't the ui use the same back/Forward buttons
> of the main browser?
The browser navigation toolbar is going away for the addons tab, because 
search box, url bar etc. don't make sense for it. See 
http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/add-ons-manager-ui-update/

Could you add the other comments to #590175 too? This list is probably 
the wrong forum to get these fixed.
- Andreas