Build: 2000031908, MacOS 8.6 The directory structure of a Mozilla installation is too `flat' -- there are not enough subfolders, and too many files at the top level in each directory. Not only is this daunting (impolite, even) to those users who venture into their Mozilla folder, but it also makes life harder for those who want to skin Mozilla, because files are not organized nicely into subdirectories. An example or three. 1. The contents of the `Mozilla Folder' for a Mac installation looks like this: Mozilla Mozilla AddressBook Mozilla Editor Mozilla Installer Mozilla Message Compose Mozilla Messenger Mozilla Preferences Mozilla Profile Manager Mozilla Profile Wizard Mozilla Select Profile chrome/ Components/ defaults/ Essential Files/ Plugins/ res/ Component Registry NSPR Logging Ideally, it should look like this instead: Mozilla Address Book Composer Mozilla Setup Compose New Message Messenger Preferences Profile Manager Profile Wizard Select Profile Essential Files/ All the other files should be in various subdirectories in the `Essential Files' folder. 2. The chrome/ folder contains 22 items at the top level. This could be simplified by, for example, putting the messengercompose/ folder inside the messenger/ folder, bookmarks/ inside the navigator/ folder, layout/ inside the global/ folder, and so on. 3. The chrome/global/skin/default/ folder contains 106 files at the top level, and no subfolders. This situation could easily be rectified, using (for example) toolbar/, taskbar/, and scrollbar/ subfolders.

cc hyatt. Isn't this a dup? We need to change the structure, but it is happening in M16, not M20.

Mass-adding beta2 keyword to all skins bugs.

mass re-assign of all bugs where i was listed as the qa contact

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2. Sending over to hyatt.

Mass-moving all M20-M30 XPToolkit bugs to Future

We jared the chrome on Win32. Landing on other platforms shortly. This is definitely resolved.

see also 55819, I don't think that this is fixed enough

Ok, reopening (keeping in mind that this is Futured). (2) and (3) from the original report have largely been fixed, but (1) hasn't -- the Mozilla Folder is still much more cluttered than a Mac user would expect. Background: the contents of an application folder on the Mac should be roughly as complicated as the contents of an average Start menu submenu on Windows, as Mac users regularly open the application folders themselves (rather than using the Apple menu or the Launcher) in order to launch programs. The items in the top-level directory(/-ies) should be few, and should have human-readable names; items which the user doesn't need to see should be pushed into deeper directories, but should still have human-readable names if possible. See the screenshots at bug 55819 for examples, or spend five minutes on a Mac browsing the contents of the System Folder. qawanted: Could a Windows person and a Linux person please attach top-level file listings (e.g. ls -la /usr/bin/mozilla >listing) of the Mozilla binary directory to this bug. Thanks.

Matthew, the structure you mentioned as current state actually looks good to me. Attaching an |ls| of the Unix Mozilla top-level folder, as requested by you.

Erm ... which of those are directories? I was expecting to see a few `/'s in that listing. :-)

File separate bugs (not on me, because this isn't my problem) if you have remaining concerns about dir structure. I only had this bug originally to track jarring of chrome.