231211 - Make bug link configurable per channel/server

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

If you are ever participating in more than one project that uses IRC and
Bugzilla, you will find that you'd really want the ability to configure the bug
links per channel and/or server. For example, when I am on irc.mozilla.org's
#mozilla channel the default link is good, but when I am on
irc.osafoundation.org's #chandler channel I want the domain to point to
osafoundation.org.

Comment 1

[James Ross]

Nice idea. I think it would only need to be per server, but adding per-channel
would be an easy extra. Might be a pain to implement, though, as the munger
currently has no concept of views.

Comment 2

[Sam Hasler]

Could it be made into a more general linker? I'm thinking of wiki's interlink
format "Wiki:WikiWiki" or "google:chatzilla".

Comment 3

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I really liked the idea of this bug. If it would be very hard to implement such
differences, I think it might still be possible to add an item to the contect
menu to use a selected phrase or word as a parameter to a link, in a similar way
to the current bookmarks. (e.g., you can do 'google chatzilla' in the addressbar
to google for chatzilla, at least on Firefox (I'm not sure about Mozilla))

So, you could select a phrase or word, right click that and google it, use it
for a bug link, or a wikilink or...

It seems that might be a more dynamic option, though it loses the efficiency of
turning it into a link by default, which is very useful when on moznet.

Comment 4

[James Ross]

This should actually be really easy to do, and will definately get fixed (either
by me, or whoever gets their first).

Anyone who's interested, here's some hints...

In prefs.js, add the pref used for bug URLs to both the network and channel
lists, using 'defer' as the default value like most other preferences. This way
it automatically inherits from the parent.

Then, in the function to insert the bug link (found in static.js), you will
probably need the 3rd parameter to get the preference rather than 'client'. See
the channe link code for some hints, though that always uses the network. The
bug link code should use channel if it exists, otherwise network. If there's no
network, use the client.

Comment 5

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Attachment: Patch based on instructions

Fix based on Silver's instructions. Worked fine, I placed the entry in the
preference window under the 'Appearance > Miscellaneous' part, which seemed
most fitting. For consistency, I also did so on the global prefs (ie, not just
for the channel / network versions).

Comment 6

[James Ross]

Checked in --> FIXED.

In approximately 56 minutes a build with this fix will be available from:
  http://twpol.dyndns.org/mozilla/chatzilla/nightly/