117175 - No Right Click [context] Menu for XUL FTP Links

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Felix Miata]

2001122719

Go to ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest-trunk/ and see no
evidence any URL is a link. Right click on any filename, and no menu pops up.
Cannot therefore copy the URL into WGET to download, as nothing on page is
selectable for cut & paste.

I belive this started when FTP page listings were chromed a couple of weeks or
so ago.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Confirming bug on Windows - not OS/2 specific 

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Does this happen all the time, or only sometimes?

XUL is now disabled by default; setting milestone/keywords to match

Comment 3

[Spiros Ioannou]

I think this is fixed in the latest nightly. Reporter?

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Was fixed several days ago when FTP listings were dechromed - last Sunday?

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

It's also working in Windows 98 now.

Resolving as worksforme on the basis of previous comment.

Comment 6

[Felix Miata]

2002031916

I filed this bug when XUL for FTP listings was the default. XUL is not now the
default, so I don't know how to test under the conditions under which this bug
was filed. Reopening until confirmed working using XUL.

Comment 7

[benc]

I think this is controlled by Prefs | Debug | Networking 

"Enable html directory listing"

Comment 8

[Felix Miata]

2002031916 OS/2

Prefs | Debug | Networking is a bizarre place for something like this.
Nevertheless, HTML is the default, and the right click menu works when it is
set. There is no right click menu when XUL is selected. Added XUL to summary.

Comment 9

[Arthur]

Is there a way at all to save a file with the XUL ftp-listing?

Comment 10

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

If you save the listing itsself, you will get an equivalnet html page for ftp
and gopher. (This is a massive hack)

File isn't hooked up to that yet, though.

Comment 11

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

xul dirviewer bugs -> 1.2. I have no time..

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 145616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[benc]

I see this happening in file XUL/tree as well... Mac OS X, N7.0PR1 (effectively
RC2).

Comment 14

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 154671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 159766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I have no time to work on mozilla at the moment, so dougt is taking over FTP

open ftp bugs -> him

Comment 17

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

xulviewer

Comment 18

[Marian]

Just wanted to ping and inform that this is still unchanged in Mozilla 1.3a.

From a user standpoint it is a little odd when there are no real ways to
interact with the FTP directory listings except expand/collapse and double click.

Options in my opinion would be:

For items representing directories:

- Open Directory in New Window
- Open Directory in New Tab
- Bookmark this Directory
- Copy Directory Location
- Properties

For items representing files:

- Save File...
- Copy File location
- Bookmark this File
- Copy File Location
- Properties

Don't know how to treat symlinks... would be best to treat them as what they
link to, but I'm not sure if that information is available.

Comment 19

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 201496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[benc]

shouldn't this be in xp-apps/trees?