297815 - [Mac & Linux] edit feed URL needs to appear as disabled

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

I've noticed this with recent (at least since 20050614) trunk builds on Mac and
Linux: cannot seem to edit the feed URL.

1. make sure you already have some RSS feeds you've subscribed to.
2. open the RSS Subuscriptions dialog.
3. select and expand a feed folder, and select a feed.
4. click the Edit button (or double-click the feed).
5. in the resulting dialog, try to change the content in the Feed URL textfield.

results: unable to change the Feed URL textfield. problematic if the feed's URL
changes.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

hm, wonder if the fix for 289629 might've caused this?

this was a bug in a 2005050910-trunk build.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

This was done by design and I thought this was true back in 1.0 as well but
maybe it was something I did with the new UI.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

if this is by design, then we might as well make the content in the URL Feed
field appear disabled.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

sarah it is disabled, the textbox should have a big grey box in the back ground.
IT looks disbled on windows. :)

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> sarah it is disabled, the textbox should have a big grey box in the back ground.
> IT looks disbled on windows.

it doesn't have the disabled appearance on the Mac --perhaps that's a theme
issue then?

Comment 6

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

I don't mean to be an idiot, but why can't you change where a feed is located?

In addition, would a 302 Permanent Redirect (not sure if its 302) change the URL
for you?

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

your right sairuh, I see this on Mac OS X where the texbox doesn't look disabled.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

it's also the case on Linux, too. (looking at yesterday's trunk build there.)

Comment 9

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Sorry for the dependency bugspam: two Core:Widget bugs and not the one Toolkit bug I thought. Should be fixed on Mac once I get a checkin.

Comment 10

[Rolf Leggewie]

Well, regarding the question whether this is by design.  There is an edit button in the UI interface and it pops up a dialog where one assumes to be able to edit the feed URL.  Alas, it is not possible.  It would be nice to change it, though.

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 354095 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Stephen Smith]

*** Bug 361207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Stephen Smith]

I'm using Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (20061025) on Windows with the default theme, and the Feed URL does not appear as being disabled. I wasn't aware that the field was intended to be read-only... it would be very nice if we could edit feed URLs.

Comment 14

[Frédéric Buclin]

Not being able to edit the URL of the feed is really annoying. For instance, if your Bugzilla installation is restricted to logged in users only, you have to manually add the Bugzilla_login and Bugzilla_password to the URL so that you can still download feeds. But Thunderbird doesn't let us do it. Instead of disabling the URL field, I would prefer to see it editable for real.

Comment 15

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Fixed up the dependency chain - it now looks (roughly, fairly) disabled on Linux.

Let's start with a fresh bug for the "it shouldn't look or be disabled, I want to change it" thing.

Comment 16

[Victor Engmark]

Can you please reopen this? Build "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15" still has this problem.

Comment 17

[Rolf Leggewie]

I can't spot how this looks disabled, either.  Reopening.

Did anybody ever open the "it shouldn't look or be disabled, I want to change it" ticket?

Comment 18

[alta88]

the feed url can now be updated in the Subscribe dialog, per bug 716706.