[Companion] Problems with different themes.

Jesse Savage jsavage at alumni.kenyon.edu
Thu Sep 16 23:30:51 EDT 2004


Does the Mozilla Google toolbar offer any insight into how to fix this 
problem, i.e. is it a narrow toolbar that avoids this issue? I don't 
know myself but it's a thought. =)

-jesse

Brian wrote:
> Shane Volpe wrote:
> 
>> This is a minor issue but if you select different
>> themes for firebird the yahoo toolbar buttons and
>> button arrow placements overlap or are too far spaced
>> (depending on the theme).
>> Themes tested:
>> Noia 2.0 Extreme (ver 2.75)  -- Overlap occurs
>> FirefoxModern (ver 0.7.1)    -- spread apart
>>
>>  
>>
> The Mozilla Modern theme, and any theme derived from it, uses XBL to
> change the layout of the menu-buttons on a toolbar.  Normally, they are
> made up of a button and drop-marker side by side, but in these themes,
> the drop-marker is stacked on top of the button, so that it overlays the
> contents.  It works well for the large toolbars at the top of the
> browser window (Back, etc.) or the mail client, but not so well in a
> narrow toolbar.
> 
> Setting the menu-buttons to vertical orientation helps, but makes the
> toolbar larger and less attractive.
> 
> I am not sure how to fix it, but I am hoping for inspiration.
> 
> 
> 
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