*** Original post on bio 603 by Paul [sabret00the] <sabret00the AT yahoo.co.uk> at 2010-11-27 16:54:00 UTC *** Replace the traditional menu bar with a high contrast application level button on Windows Vista and 7. The traditional menu bar should still be available as an option, but by default, the contents should be available via the application button. This should be an option on Windows XP and lower. Trillian have already adopted this approach in terms of instant messaging applications with their fifth iteration of this messenger. Many other Windows application in other fields also adopt this approach including Mozilla Firefox 4.

*** Original post on bio 603 at 2010-11-27 20:22:35 UTC *** Confirming this as it's the way the Windows UI seems to be going.

*** Original post on bio 603 as attmnt 407 at 2010-12-01 16:05:00 UTC *** This is 'something' copied from Firefox code. It's no serious work but it's possible to see how things are done. Summarized: * You need "drawintitlebar" on the window, chromemargin (?) can adjust the position * You need something to display there (see the blist.xul part) * Figure out what to display on the menu. I don't think we should stuff everything we have in there. * Cleanup: remove unnecessary Firefox CSS. Maybe move teh button styles to a new css file if we plan to use it on other windows as well (conversation windows?) If anyone wants to pick up this task/project just go ahead.

*** Original post on bio 603 by Paul [sabret00the] <sabret00the AT yahoo.co.uk> at 2010-12-01 18:19:30 UTC *** (In reply to comment #2) My thoughts for the conversation window was that we could simply mimic/use the tabs in titlebar code that's about to land. Seeing as we have no menus on the conversation window anyway, there's really no need to add one. At least not until we have things like voice/cam and file transfers working.

*** Original post on bio 603 at 2010-12-16 10:17:48 UTC *** Here's a screenshot of the Trillian window: http://www.trillian.im/learn/images/trillian5-top2.png

*** Original post on bio 603 at 2010-12-17 05:28:08 UTC *** Mook created a sample extension that does this: https://github.com/mook/bucktooth

*** Original post on bio 603 by Paul [sabret00the] <sabret00the AT yahoo.co.uk> at 2011-01-03 18:23:30 UTC *** (In reply to comment #5) > Mook created a sample extension that does this: > https://github.com/mook/bucktooth Just had a look. It requires a little bit of work but is good to show what we're trying to achieve. It certainly highlights the importance of bug 954068 (bio 632).

*** Original post on bio 603 at 2011-05-23 16:39:58 UTC *** I'm afraid it's too late to get this in good shape for 0.3, and given Mic's great work in bug 954056 (bio 620), the UI will already look good on recent Windows versions, so this can probably wait.

*** Original post on bio 603 as attmnt 660 at 2011-05-27 18:07:00 UTC *** (In reply to comment #4) > Here's a screenshot of the Trillian window: > http://www.trillian.im/learn/images/trillian5-top2.png This is a dead link, just uploading a better screenshot (from http://www.trillian.im/windows/).

I don't think this is wanted anymore, it seems like UI has gone beyond this for Firefox and Thunderbird with the hamburger button.

Originally by Mic on the wiki: > Something fancy. This is based on actual XUL and CSS, a bit of c/p from Firefox code. Not functional yet, but that shouldn't be too hard to write.

Originally by Mic on the wiki: > Button less tall (taking values that UX suggested in bug 615890 on BMO)