On Jul 8, 2:46 am, jwal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since firebug came out it has made my life so much easier, a big
> thanks for that!
> With the recent updates I've seen two things that had me raise my
> eyebrow..
>
> In UI design the top left and top right corners are "worth more" in
> screen real estate than other places.
> Typically you'd want to put actions there that are used most often.
> Firebug nailed it by putting the inspect action left and the X for
> closing firefox to the right.
>
> So whats up with the latest ui updates? Putting a menu in the left
> hotspot and putting "turn off firebug for this site" in the right
> hotspot??!!
The Firebug Icon Menu has always been on the left, see eg
http://getfirebug.com/.
We don't have any measurements of the relative frequency of button use
in Firebug. Based on user feedback in the past, we guess that
"minimize/unminimize" is one of the most used functions. For this
reason we devoted the Firebug status bar icon to this function.
>
> I understand the troubles of positioning the menu.. its a tough one to
> place properly.
> But making the X perform nonstandard behaviour is bad imho.
> x=close .. everywhere.. its what people expect..
And the standard position for [X] is on the right
side....everywhere... its what people expect.
>
> close is used about 50-500 times a day by me, depending on how much
> work I do on html/css..
I assume the operation you call "close" is what we call "minimize".
This hides the Firebug UI without disconnecting Firebug from the page.
We offer three different ways to trigger minimize:
1) Firebug status bar icon,
2) [_] minimize icon,
3) Key binding default F12 (Firefox > Tools > Firebug > Customize
Shortcuts)
> "deactive firebug for this site" is used about once every month by
> me.. on rare occasions
Ok so now we have one data point. 1.29 million users to go...
> Why would anyone choose to give the rarely used option a more
> prominent position while the more commonly used option is given a non-
> standard, harder to click position?
Because the order matches the expected order from other applications
and because we have two other ways to trigger the action, both faster
than the upper right button.
>
> I'm not trying to criticize though.. to everyone who has contributed
> to this amazing extension, thanks a lot!
> I know ui dev is not easy, and its hard to please everyone.
>
> ...But please, think about it.
Nothing wrong with criticism here. The only thing I dislike is
criticism posted where we cannot read and interact.
jjb
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