412553 - ability to edit feed properties (title/URL)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, enhancement)

Description

[Gavin Lambert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

When I go to the RSS Subscriptions window, I expect to be able to edit the feed title and URL.  TB lets me do neither.  (Not being able to edit the URL is a fatal flaw.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to the feed.
2. Select the feed.
3. Click Edit.
4. Notice how the URL field is read-only and there is no field for the title (nor is there a rename option in the Subscription window itself).


Expected Results:  
Both the URL and the title should be editable.  Especially the URL.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE. (This would be the rfe part of bug 297815 comment 15.)

Comment 2

[Gavin Lambert]

Yes, it does look like what that comment was suggesting.  Did such an issue ever get filed?  I did do a search before posting this and I couldn't find anything...

(And incidentally, on Windows that field does not look disabled.  Had it looked disabled then I would have filed this as an RFE and not a bug.)

Feed support in Thunderbird seems to be very much a third-class citizen at the moment; there's lots of usability failures.  (There's another thing in particular about the Subscribe window that really annoys me, but I guess that should probably be filed as a separate RFE.)

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yeah, didn't find any other bugs filed for this issue. 

> And incidentally, on Windows that field does not look disabled. 

It doesn't? Is that a vista-only issue?

Comment 4

[Gavin Lambert]

I'm not sure.  I don't have an XP system to test it on at the moment.

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It shouldn't look disabled, it should look read-only, like data:text/html,<input readonly value="foo"> does in Firefox. Of course, nobody ever sees read-only inputs, so that appearance isn't at all familiar, but disabled means you can't copy-paste.

Comment 6

[Gavin Lambert]

Ok, well it does look and behave like the HTML readonly field.  However the appearance is still identical to the non-readonly field -- the only difference is behavioral; if you click in the readonly field you don't get a carat (but you can still select text) and typing is ignored.  Some kind of grayed-out background would have been nicer.

But anyway, that's a side issue.  The point of this bug/RFE is that I don't want it to be readonly in the first place -- that causes problems when feed URLs change (which has happened a lot to me recently).

Comment 10

[alta88]

feed titles/urls can now be updated in the Subscribe dialog, per bug 716706.