12400 - a global overlay for charset menus needed

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Depending on which components share the same charset menu, a global
overlay file of the charset menu might be appropriate to be shared among
different components. Message compose window will probably not
share this but Navigator. Editor, and Messenger window probably will.

This bug sis filed as a reminder.

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

The current draft of the menu spec is at the above URL. This will
be finalized in the near future.

Comment 2

[tague]

i'm going to actually reassign this to me, since i think this falls in my area
of work for now - since i'm supposed to be doing the menu stuff for M11.

momoi-san can you explain what you mean by a global overlay.

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

There are some examples of global overlay in:

..chrome/global/content/default  directory.

For example, tasksOverlay.xul file defines the "Tasks" menu which
can be called into other .xul files, e.g. navigator.xul,
messenger.xul, etc.
Also once the charsetOverlay.xul file is done, then we need to extract
ENTITY definitions into:

..chrome/global/content/default/en-US/charsetOverlay.dtd

for easy localization purposes.

I think this is a desirable thing if we plan to share the exact same
charset menus among components.

Comment 4

[Frank Tang]

reassign this bug to cata.

Comment 5

[cata]

Done.

Comment 6

[Teruko Kobayashi]

I verified this in 121608 Win32, 121612 Linux and Mac builds.