Something else occurred to me: I just don't notice the color difference often to show if firebug is active or not. Rather than have a big bar, perhaps the area of the status pane could be larger when active (and back to the idea of putting the inspect icon in there some firebug activity icons). Anyhow, just thoughts...
On Apr 28, 11:57 am, Steven Roussey <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that minimize ought to be the default option -- most of the > time, I just want that window space back. But I don't care about every > pixel, and don't always go trying to close the find bar, for example. > That is what got me going on having Firebug 'minimize' to a small bar > (where I could still click on the inspect button, for example, where > after choosing an item to inspect, firebug would go to its previous > open state). I figure that the minimized/bar version could come in > handy for future releases. Network activity, for example could cause > the Net tab to blink, etc. > > On Apr 27, 2:38 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 26, 11:51 pm, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I assume that the intent of the two different buttons is that the > > > console continues to accumulate messages while minimized, but not when > > > closed. That's not immediately apparent to me. > > > Hi Martin, I'm unclear on what is unclear to you, but minimize leaves > > all of firebug running, but just pulls down the UI. Close on the other > > hand destroys any meta data Firebug has created and detaches from the > > web page. > > > > A small bug appeared that I'm trying to nail down. I find that on the > > > page that I frequently use firebug, when I close firebug, switch tabs > > > and switch back, firebug re-opens itself. This is only a minor > > > Ok, here's an issue I am uncertain about. > > > In 1.4a21 I changed the Firebug icon operations: > > Firebug is closed: Click opens > > Firebug is open: Click minimizes > > So now the close button is the red [x] button. > > > I guess you minimized, switched, then when you switched back Firebug > > came up because it was just minimized. > > > Feedback welcome: I think that users will want the Firebug icon to > > open,minimize, unminimize, minimize, ... rather than open, close, > > open, close. Even if it is inconsistent. Because it is the common > > operation. Let me know. > > > > annoyance, because I use firebug all the time there, and minimize > > > seems to stick. I can imagine that this turns into a major annoyance > > > in other cases though. I'll note that I've used about:config to reset > > > all of firebug's config to no avail. I haven't filed a report, > > > because I can't reliably reproduce this, will do when I work it out. > > > I think I should add a "resetAllOptions" to help with bug reporting if > > nothing else. > > > jjb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
