124996 - Add icons for save as behaviour in dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Marlon suggested we improve the Save As dialog to be like attachment 68228 [details].
See bug 116008.

Comment 1

[:deanis74]

What happens when we add subsequent options, like maybe bug 121793?

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

we add more icons?

Comment 3

[:deanis74]

Where?

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Next to these, I guess. Marlon or mpt would know.

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

That would be really ugly if we got to more than three different types.

Comment 6

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Unfortunately this solution will not make this release. 

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I hope it never makes any release.

(I don't think it's likely to, either, since it allows no room for the `Text 
File' option which has been implemented since that mockup was produced.)

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Ok, that unexplained statement was uncalled for. Sorry, Marlon and everyone. 
It's past my bedtime.

If Mozilla was the only program which people frequently saved files with in 
Windows, and if the save as text feature hadn't been implemented, I think this 
would be a good idea, because it's marginally more usable than an option menu, 
and preferable to an option menu if there are only two options.

But people use Word and Publisher and Outlook and lots of other programs which 
all use an option menu, not a radio group, and in this case I think the harm 
from the obvious inconsistency is greater than the benefit from the local 
optimization. In addition, the mockup shows that there would be no room for a 
save as text radio button.

Comment 9

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Comment 10

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Our nsIFilePicker integration doesn't really allow for this at the moment.