Ok, here's an alternate suggestion (just some art fixes, really): Place a minimize button (horizontal bar) and an x (close) button in the upper right hand corner - more consistent with the way most OS's work. Minimize would keep it active, whereas the x would close it (turning it off for this website). So you're basically swapping the down arrow with a minimize icon, and the off button with an x icon. I'd also move the 'open in new window' button to the left of the other two buttons, and change it to a different icon.
On Aug 18, 9:36 pm, johnjbarton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote: > On Aug 18, 9:11 pm, Scott Shumaker <sshuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've installed the latest firebug (1.5a21). I think I finally > > understand it's behavior, now that the annotation bug is fixed. But > > the UI is really weird. > > > First off, you have to make sure that NEITHER 'on for all webpages' > > NOR 'off for all webpages' is checked. Yes, checking one unchecks the > > other, but you can uncheck both, too. > > Yes, uncheck both. > > > > > Secondly, you'll notice that if you click the little bug in the lower > > right hand corner of the status bur when it's greyed out, will turn it > > on and expand the firebug window. However, clicking the bug again > > will only minimize it, not turn it off. Yes, it's a bad design > > practice. But bear with me. > > Of course I don't agree. Because the common use model, as has been > repeated over and over and over again here, is to open firebug, then > repeat cycles of minimize, open, minimize, open. This pattern has > been always been true of Firebug and across different kinds of users. > That is why the Status bar icon works the way it does. If it activated > firebug on one click, then deactivated on the next click, that would > wire the uncommon case to the button. > > I agree that this behavior is slightly unexpected, but once you try > it, I guess you may agree that it does make sense. > > > > > When you click the bug, you've enabled firebug for that domain, as far > > as I can tell. If you want to turn it off, you need to click the > > little 'off' button you can see once it's expanded. > > Yes, by design. That way you have to really want to turn Firebug off, > not accidentally by clicking the status bar icon a second time. > > (This is the root of many discussions on this group because unknown to > us some users operate like this: > Status bar On, Minimize icon [_], statusbar open, Minimize [_], ... > In 1.4 we changed these icons and moved the minimize to the left two > places, and to add insult to the damage, we put the Off button in the > position of the old minimize. These users were (are) quite unhappy > because they use this sequence a lot and find that they hit Off by > accident). > > > > > One additional weirdness - if you change tabs, firebug stays open, but > > it's still really attached to the first tab. This can often confuse > > you into thinking you're debugging some other tab, but you're not. > > This is incorrect behavior. It does not happen for us. Unfortunately > the only way we have of resolving this is to ask for a test case, ask > you to trace your install, or ask you to install Firebug in a new > Firefox profile (which will fix your problem). > > jjb... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to firebug@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to firebug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
