Improve Panorama interactions

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Status

Improve Panorama interactions
Stage	Development
Status	In progress
Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	List of must-have and nice-to-have decided, work ongoing.

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Alex Limi
Lead engineer	Tim Taubert
Security lead	`
Privacy lead	`
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	George Carstoiu
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Panorama has a lot of small interaction problems, and some conceptual problems too. We'd like to spend some time to eliminate as many of these as we can. We'd like to bundle these up as a feature page for ease of tracking — especially since some of the issues are related, and need to land in the same release.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

The designs are mostly smaller interaction problems and confusing conceptual models. We have filed bugs for the individual issues (see the relevant bug section below), but overall, these are the issues we're addressing:

Must-have:

• You can't click a group to activate the whole group (Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab) (Don't show the drag cursor on groups now that entering the group is the dominant operation. Dragging could still work, of course.) (Remove New Tab button)
• When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)
• Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
• A "new group" control
• An exit control
• A text field to filter instead of the search icon

Nice-to-have:

• Multiselect is not supported in groups
• Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't

Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:

• Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
• Minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
• Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017

Fixed:

• FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs
• FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
• FIXED: Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
• WONTFIX: You can't detach a group to a window
• FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

Must-have Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 607108	focus group name field after creating new group	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 630792	Add a close button and small toolbar to Tab View	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 654721	Remove the "orphan tab" concept from Panorama	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663611	display pointer cursor when hovering tab groups	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663612	clicking a group should zoom into the group's active tab	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663613	remove "new tab" button from groups	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663614	remove double-click to create a new tab in a group	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663622	notify the user that session restore was enabled	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review

Nice-to-have Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 583435	Control/Command Click in Tabcandy should select multiple tabs (shift-click should select a range)
Bug 663421	Don't close empty groups automatically	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663617	highlight tab groups when hovering them

Undecided Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 596017	Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 654295	Closing last tab of a group doesn't show Panorama
Bug 649316	allow closing tabs in panorama with del and cmd+backspace	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 607383	Reduce redundant display of app tabs in panorama view	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 617454	faster zoom with imposter technique (particularly for slower machines)

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=` |Feature overview=Panorama has a lot of small interaction problems, and some conceptual problems too. We'd like to spend some time to eliminate as many of these as we can. We'd like to bundle these up as a feature page for ease of tracking — especially since some of the issues are related, and need to land in the same release. |Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=` |Feature non-goals=` |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=The designs are mostly smaller interaction problems and confusing conceptual models. We have filed bugs for the individual issues (see the relevant bug section below), but overall, these are the issues we're addressing:

Must-have:

• You can't click a group to activate the whole group (Creating a new group and clicking in it should just create a blank new tab) (Don't show the drag cursor on groups now that entering the group is the dominant operation. Dragging could still work, of course.) (Remove New Tab button)
• When creating a new group, autofocus the title field (also for creating groups by dragging)
• Tabs should not be able to exist without a group
• A "new group" control
• An exit control
• A text field to filter instead of the search icon

Nice-to-have:

• Multiselect is not supported in groups
• Blank groups with no name get removed, shouldn't

Stuff we are undecided about or don't know current state of:

• Never show me groups when I haven't asked (closing the last tab in a group, Aero Peek)
• Minimize need for manual positioning and grouping
• Groups from Panorama could show in List All Tabs — but we should probably just show the group names, not individual tabs. Related: bug 596017

Fixed:

• FIXED: Private mode ungroups your tabs
• FIXED: When you close the last tab in a group, you automatically get sent to another open group, is this what we want?
• FIXED: Hitting Cmd-W when in panorama removes the selected tab, which is unexpected (it feels like a window operation at that point)
• WONTFIX: You can't detach a group to a window
• FIXED: Text editing doesn't support arrow keys

|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=` |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes===== Must-have Bugs ====

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 607108	focus group name field after creating new group	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 630792	Add a close button and small toolbar to Tab View	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 654721	Remove the "orphan tab" concept from Panorama	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663611	display pointer cursor when hovering tab groups	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663612	clicking a group should zoom into the group's active tab	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663613	remove "new tab" button from groups	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 663614	remove double-click to create a new tab in a group	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663622	notify the user that session restore was enabled	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review

Nice-to-have Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 583435	Control/Command Click in Tabcandy should select multiple tabs (shift-click should select a range)
Bug 663421	Don't close empty groups automatically	style="background:#9D9;" | Landed
Bug 663617	highlight tab groups when hovering them

Undecided Bugs

Bug	Description	Status
Bug 596017	Combine the Panorama button and the List Tabs button and list all tabs+groups in List Tabs drop-down	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 654295	Closing last tab of a group doesn't show Panorama
Bug 649316	allow closing tabs in panorama with del and cmd+backspace	style="background:#FFA;" | Waiting for review
Bug 607383	Reduce redundant display of app tabs in panorama view	style="background:#F99;" | Design needed
Bug 617454	faster zoom with imposter technique (particularly for slower machines)

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

	status	notes
Products	tbd	`
Engineering	tbd	`
Security	tbd	`
Privacy	tbd	`
Localization	tbd	`
Accessibility	tbd	`
Quality assurance	tbd	`
User experience	tbd	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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