Closed Bug 203556 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Bookmarks toolbar folders should act like menus

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(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

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RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: classics, Assigned: basic)

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Details

(Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0)

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(1 file, 6 obsolete files)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030426 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030426 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 for example when you click 'File' on a regular menu, you can move the mouse to the right to 'Edit' and the 'File' menu will close, replaced by the 'Edit' menu without clicking anything. This should be at least an optional behavior for the bookmarks toolbar if the items on the toolbar are folders. Right now you can move to another folder, but it only highlights and the original folder clicked stays open. One has to click twice on the new folder, once to close the original, and once to open the new one before it will display. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Place 2 or more folders in bookmark toolbar 2. Click one to drop down 3. Move mouse to the right and hover on next bookmarks toolbar folder Actual Results: nothing, new folder is only highlighted, its contents are not displayed Expected Results: display folder contents
Agreed. When you click one bookmarks folder on the bookmarks toolbar and then hover to the next, that folder should open instead. Updating summary, OS > All
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Summary: browse across bookmark folders on bookmarks toolbar → Bookmarks toolbar folders should act like menus
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142215 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Jesse, you sure? Bookmarks code is forked in Phoenix.
seb: I duped it because I think this bug is unlikely to be fixed in Phoenix before Phoenix replaces Mozilla.
Jesse: for the moment, there are too many bugs in the seamonkey bookmark component: I had not the time to go through them yet. On the other hand, I know all the reported phoenix bookmark bugs. So, the thing that would help me best atm and I'd be grateful to the persons that can do it, would be to link the seamonkey/phoenix bugs through the dependency list.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Depends on: pt-menus
taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam
QA Contact: asa → mconnor
(my first bug-comment. sorry if not using properly) Strongly agreed. I heavily use these bookmark folders. Click saver :)
Attached patch patch (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
here's a patch, probably needs more comments and testing.
Assignee: p_ch → basic
Status: REOPENED → ASSIGNED
Attached patch patch v2 (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
make functions generic, should make it easier to port over to seamonkey.
Attachment #143852 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attached patch patch v3 (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
just realized that there's no need to check if the button is of type "menu" since the event fires from a menupopup, the button should always be of type "menu"
Attachment #143934 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attached patch patch v3.1 (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
bah fixing bad spacing/tab stuff
Attachment #143935 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attached patch patch v4 (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
renamed some functions, moved onpopupshowing/hidden to menupopups where possible, cut down on unneeded checks, and skip when the menu is already open.
Attached patch patch 4.1 (obsolete) (deleted) — Splinter Review
forgot to escape the &'s
Attachment #143936 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #143940 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #143949 - Flags: review?(p_ch)
Attached patch patch v5 (deleted) — Splinter Review
decided to rework the patch. Simpler and less changes. This will make the code almost identical to the seamonkey patch as well.
Attachment #143949 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #144189 - Flags: review?(p_ch)
Attachment #143949 - Flags: review?(p_ch)
It really enhances the bookmarks toolbar experience. I would like to have this for 1.0. Plus there is a patch waiting for review ...
Flags: blocking1.0?
+ since there's a patch.
Flags: blocking1.0? → blocking1.0+
Comment on attachment 144189 [details] [diff] [review] patch v5 reviewing and checking in on the branch and trunk for some testing. let's see if people like this concept...
Attachment #144189 - Flags: review?(p_ch) → review+
Marking this fixed for you.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
I've ported basic's patch as an extension for anyone wanting to use this functionality before 0.9. Thanks for the work, basic.
Oh, sorry for further bugspam... I guess the URL might be mildly useful here: http://extensions.cusser.net/bookmarktoolbarfix/bookmarktoolbarfix.xpi
er, as of 5/21 builds on branch and trunk, this is a core feature, no extension needed :) works nicely IMO
Just a thought, if you have folders and regular bookmarks on the personal toolbar, if you click on a folder it will expand, and the folders next to it will act like a menu, but if you click on a folder to expand it, and the a bookmark, the first click will do nothing (it will collapse the expanded folder), you will have to click twice to activate the bookmark.
Great fix! I've been waiting for this for a LONG time. :-D I noticed that if i selected a menu in the personal toolbar (PT), and then move over a link (not a menu) in the PT, that the last opened menu does not collapse. It would be nice if it did collapse. Another bug?
Also it would be great if you have a bookmark toolbar folder open and mouse over a main menu that main menu item opens.
Brian: I think that would result in menus opening unexpectedly.
(In reply to comment #25) > Brian: I think that would result in menus opening unexpectedly. Oh well I use my bookmark toolbar right next to my main menu so it's sort of an extension of my main menu. I'll try putting my bookmark toolbar on the other side of the address bar. This way if I want something on the menu I won't go to my bookmark toolbar.
I'm sorry but i think this fix produces some odd interaction between folder menu and "popup" contextual RMB menu. Assume in your personal toolbar you have some folder containing each one a list of bookmark. Steps to reproduce: 1. Click on a folder in personal bookmark bar to show the bookmark menu 2. Move the mouse cursor over an item inside the menu 3. Click RMB to open the contextual menu, but DONT select any action 4. Move away the mouse up to open another folder in personal toolbar with a mouseover. Expected: The popup menu should close Unfortunately, the popup contextual menu REMAIN ZOMBIE on screen, and there is NO WAY to get rid of it, unless selecting something into! Well, i think an easy fix would be to close all pending contextual menu any time the user open a folder menu due tu a mouseover. Can someone reproduce this issue ?
(In reply to comment #27) > Expected: The popup menu should close I disagree. The expected result should be that the context menu remains, and no additional menus should open until the user dismisses the menu by clicking elsewhere. This seems to be the way Windows context menus behave. > Well, i think an easy fix would be to close all pending contextual menu any > time the user open a folder menu due tu a mouseover. It may seem odd to the user if his menu disappears because his mouse happened to hover over some PART of the screen that we define as closing his dialog. > Can someone reproduce this issue ? Yes. (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040611 Firefox/0.8.0+)
I changed my idea, you are right, menu should close only clicking away! Anyway, having the popup menu stuck zombie like now should be fixed. Regards,
Keywords: fixed-aviary1.0
*** Bug 177563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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