230337 - Proper cursors for bookmark dragging

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Gérard Talbot]

[Actual results] Right now, Mozilla uses the native Win32 cursor for selected
text dragging when one drags a bookmark in the Bookmark Manager window, in the
Bookmarks menu (drop-down list) and in the Personal Toolbar. Mozilla also uses
the CSS3 not-allowed cursor to notify visually of an impossible drop action.

[Expected results] Mozilla should use a customized and more intuitive-looking
cursors for such drag-N-drop mouse action.

The provided URL offers 2 pairs of custom made 32x32 bitmap cursors: 1 for
dragging and 1 for dragging with no drop. Using MSIE 6 for Windows will show how
these cursors look, otherwise equivalent .pgn images are available.

Size, looks, shape, color, outline are all modifiable, configurable.

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

K-meleon 0.8.2, a Gecko-based browser using native Windows components, uses
specific and custom cursors for dragging and droping bookmarks.

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

I'm confirming this bug because customized bookmark dragging cursors would be
useful for bug 235243 and for bug 255977.

Comment 3

[timeless]

since netscape 4, internet explorer, and mozilla are consistent on windows, i'm
not sure it makes much sense to change this behavior for windows.

i seem to recall netscape 4 for mac os classic (8/9) behaved differently, but
i'd have to go home to check.

Comment 4

[Gérard Talbot]

Timeless, I do not understand your position in this bug. Using text-selected
drag for dragging a bookmark is not intuitive whatever browser we're referring
to: MSIE 6 or Mozilla (or any other browser). So why should we do the same as
MSIE 6 in such case? MSIE 6 will always refer to favorites and Mozilla will
always refer to bookmark and use its assigned bookmark icon.

If you look to both pairs of cursors, I bet that a wide majority of people would
naturally and intuitively associate such pair of cursors to the action of
moving, grabbing or dragging bookmarks. In the pair of cursors, the bookmark
icon is inserted: so it has to be more naturally designed for bookmark dragging.

My 2 cents

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

Is this still actual/planned to be implemented?