| Figure 1: Next Firefox theme. |
Anyway, I'd like to suggest a little enhancement (in my opinion) for the GUI, which I think could improve the user experience.
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| Figure 2: Current Firefox theme. |
My idea is to change the behavior of current drop-down buttons. Currently drop-down buttons and menus are rendered with a separation between the button itself and the drop panel, like in figure 1 and figure 2 (you could see this behavior in current Firefox 3.6 version and in the next one, 4.0).
The coherence could be enhanced if these two elements are merged into a single, continuos one.
Here's a draft of what I mean:
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| Figure 3: Continuos, drop-down button. |
The same could be applied to the new download button:
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| Figure 4: Download manager drop-down, with two different looks. |
Maybe also other features, like notifications, could behave the same, but they could have a different meaning...
Just to mention it, also Microsoft in the .NET framework uses this approach (if I'm not wrong):
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| Figure 5: .NET menu style. |
I don't know if my thought is good or not, or useful or achievable, but hope it could help in any way...






