16969 - UI: Add a bookmarks menu to the mail window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[fenella]

This bug is used track the Bookmarks implementation in the Task drop-down menu

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

Mr. Overlay?

Comment 2

[german]

There is no bookmarks menu being planned in the tasks menu. Bookmarks is in fact
its own menu. If mail needs to have access to bookmarks, it should (for
consistency reasons) also be placed as a main menu.

Comment 3

[hangas]

Mass move to M13.

Comment 4

[Phil Peterson]

So, can we morph this into "add a bookmarks menu to the mail window"?

Comment 5

[Ninoschka Baca]

According to the Mail Spec there should be a "Bookmarks" menu item under the 
Tasks menu. http://gooey/client/5.0/specs/mail/messenger/MailMenus.html.

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

Can we live without this for beta2?  Changing to M17.

Comment 7

[selmer (gone)]

Not beta2 stopper. Marking M18.  Add beta2 keyword if you disagree.

Comment 8

[hangas]

Mass move mailnews bugs to Putterman.  Ouch.

Comment 9

[Marko Macek]

I'd like this too. (global Tasks->Bookmasks menu item).

Comment 10

[Marko Macek]

BrowserEditBookmarks from navigator.js should be moved to tasksOverlay.js
(or something) to make it easily accessible.

Perhaps renamed to 'toBookmarks' to follow the naming convention of the rest 
there (toHistory, ...)

Can someone do this?

Then it's very simple to add the Bookmarks menu item to the menus.
(Making the Ctrl+B/Ctrl+Shift+B work appropriatelly is more work, but that is a 
separate bug. I had it done but mistakenly rm-rfed the directory).

Comment 11

[Ninoschka Baca]

*** Bug 43412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

mail triage team is marking this nsbeta3-

Comment 13

[scottputterman]

reassigning to sspitzer

Comment 14

[Rob Stow]

I suggest that the "Bookmarks" menu should be copied in its
entirety from the Navigator Menu into the main Mail menu.

My primary reason for wanting access to my bookmarks from 
mail are simple:  I very frequently want to put a bookmarked 
URL into a newsgroup posting or an e-mail.  

It seems pretty stupid to have to start up the browser, start 
up bookmark manager, find the bookmark, right-click, pick 
"Properties", select the URL, copy it onto the clipboard  - when 
all one should have to do is click on "Bookmarks", navigate to the
desired bookmark, and select "Copy Link Location".  Note that
the last part depends on bug #50504.   

Bug #50504 is a real mind boggler:  even with only ten days
to go before the official release date for Mozilla 1.0 there
are no context menus for bookmarks !

A secondary reason for wanting Bookmarks from Mail/News is that 
I often go straight to mail/news when I start Mozilla and do not
open a browser window unless something in my mail or news inspires
me to do so.  Eg:  I might want to check that a bookmarked link
really is relevant to a discussion before I post the URL to a
newsgroup.

Comment 15

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 17

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 18

[Robert Kaiser]

There are no plans to implement this in SeaMonkey right now, and also no very compelling usecase (the only real usecase here is comment #14, and that's IMHO best achieved with an extension that allows the sidebar including the bookmarks panel in mailnews).