746739 - The new download list (when downloads button is clicked) looks bad

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Downloads Panel, defect)

Description

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

The list looks just wrong on linux. Lots of space and strange background color.

Comment 1

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Looks good to me on Ubuntu. What Linux distribution are you running? Can you provide a screenshot?

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Attachment: screenshot

I'm using Fedora 15 / Gnome 3
The background color is something no other popup seems to have.
(elsewhere the background is white-ish), and it looks strange to
have a menu like thing with so much space between items.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

that's the expected style actually, apart that long scrollbar (may go aways on your next restart, bug 746756).
Clearly we can improve, though it's based on the mock-ups we got.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

If that is the expected style, then those expected styles have a bug ;)

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

you know, it's hard to design a generic style for Linux, cause the many DE and their fancy styles. Btw, you have a point.

Comment 6

[Willy_ Foo_Foo]

Sorry if posted on the wrong place but not sure about the right place

The new Download panel has loads of free chrome above & below the progress bar
why can't we use the space to provide more detail's like Speed?(which was recently removed but is very useful)
or more options like auto-clear check box or url -info?

Also there is no compact mode(if user want's to see more download in less space) mode in default large icons or using small icons

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Olli, do you have any feedback for us on the current theming?

Comment 8

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Still lots of space and the "open containing folder" is very tiny.
I guess the background color is less wrong now since the list may apparently contain only
3 latest items, so there isn't anything to scroll.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug] from comment #8)
> Still lots of space and the "open containing folder" is very tiny.

the latter is being addressed (or made better) in bug 787285.
The former is unfortunate, not sure how to attack it, we already compacted the panel quite a bit both sides.

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I'd ask to please file separate bugs for each polish issue you think should be addressed, the current style is the expected one, it clearly can be improved so feel free to file enh requests for such improvements.