Mozilla allows the user to switch between the open windows using a menu. That menu is obscurely named as "Tasks". According to Aqua HI Guidelines (Macworld draft, 2001-01-10, shipped on the Mac OS X Developer Tools CD) pp. 46-47, there should be a menu called "Window" that contains commands "Minimize" (command-M) and Zoom, a list of the open windows and possibly application-specific commands (eg. bug 53505). I suggest the Tasks menu be evolved into a Aqua-HI-Guideline-compliant Window menu on Mac OS X. (I am marking this bug Mac/Mac OS X and not All/All due to the WONTFIXing comments in bug 48748.)

This should be done on Mac OS Classic too, since it's semi-standard through being in the Mac OS 9.x Finder and a number of other Mac OS apps. Like I said in bug 48748, on other platforms a list of open windows is not necessary, because they have much better mechanisms for switching between open windows than Mac OS (either Classic or X) does. One wonders why OS X doesn't generate this menu itself, instead of risking inconsistency by making the app do it, but anyway ... Window ------ Minimize #+M Hide #+H --------------------------- Next Window Option+Tab --------------------------- {window title} {window title} / {window title} {window title} This should be distinct from the Tasks menu, which lists tools, not windows. --> XP Apps: GUI Features owner.

The Hide (command-H) menu item belongs in the Mozilla menu on Mac OS X. On Mac OS X, the right place for the component switching menu items (that are currently in the Tasks menu) would be the Mozilla menu. The Tools submenu could fit there, too. See p. 43 of the Aqua HIG Macworld draft. (Of course, normally the components would be separate apps, but since the components are being bundled together, the Mozilla menu would be the right place.) I don't have a good suggesting about the placement of the Privacy and Security submenu right now.

So we want this on Mac only, but I presume that window list at the bottom is supposed to be pulled from the Tasks menu. So does that mean you're recommending we get rid of the list of open windows on other platforms? What do others think?

I suggested renaming Tasks to Window for All/All in bug 48748. I don't like the idea of getting rid of the window list on other platforms. I use the window list on other platform, too. I suggest: On Mac OS X: Mozilla ------- About Mozilla About Plug-Ins Preferences... Tools > Browser #+1 Mail&News #+2 Editor #+4 Address Book #+5 IRC #+8 Hide Mozilla #+H Hide Others Show All Quit Mozilla #+Q Window ------ Minimize #+M Bring All To Front Next Window Option+Tab {window title} / {window title} {window title} On other platforms including Mac OS Classic: Window ------ Browser #+1 Mail&News #+2 Editor #+4 Address Book #+5 IRC #+8 Tools > {window title} / {window title} {window title} Privacy and Security policy editors could go in Edit and the related help items in Help. There would be nothing left in Tasks.

PSM should _NOT_ go into Edit. Nor should the window list be removed from the other platforms.

Serves me right for not reading the Aqua guidelines thoroughly. Anyway, this bug is about the Window menu, it is *not* about the `Mozilla' menu or the `Edit' menu. My suggested solution for the `Tasks' menu mess is in bug 32502 and bug 17767.

Mac, -> pchen

tag, german, you're it!

*** Bug 111212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

reassigning.

blake doesn't have access to a mac (unless i'm wrong ;). ->marlon

this is now part of the spec for all platforms, not just mac. changing summary, targetting->101

-> me

fixed.

vrfy'd fixed using 2002.04.09 comm bits on linux rh7.2, win2k, mac 10.1.3.