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Bug 370845

Summary: "auto collapse" of left hand pane on search results preview is disrupting
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Susan McCourt <susan>
Component: ClientAssignee: libing wang <libingw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 0.4   
Target Milestone: 0.4 RC1   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description Susan McCourt CLA 2012-02-07 10:56:41 EST 
Yesterday was my first "real use" of search/replace preview workflow.
When I pushed the Preview button, the auto collapse of the favorites pane was very disrupting.  It made me feel like "much more" was happening than I intended to.

Further, when I hit the browser back button, it returned to the search results page with the favorites pane still collapsed.  This led me to believe that browser history was broken, I didn't realize it returned me to the right page because it looked so different.

I think we should leave the favorites pane alone and let the user decide if they need more room.  (In general we shouldn't manipulate the splitter programmatically, I was happy when we finally got rid of that behavior on the git log page.)

I think there might be bugs with the splitter cookies, I'll open a separate bug on that.  (Collapse and expand doesn't remember previous position).
Comment 1 libing wang CLA 2012-02-07 11:20:36 EST 
Agree.