187849 - Disable Bookmarks menu when Open File dialog is showing

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 181721

(Camino Graveyard :: Toolbars & Menus, defect, P4)

Description

[Brad Kemper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021209 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021209 Chimera/0.6+

Usually in OS X, the "Open File" modal window will disable most of the menus
(except sometime "Edit" and "Help") so that the user will not be selecting
things that shouldn't work when in the "Open" mode. Chimera instead disables
individual items, and not all that should be. For instance the bookmarks menu
remains active, but doesn't do anything when you select a bookmark. And the
"Zoom Window" menu item in the "Window" menu remains active, but beeps when you
select it.

"Print" on the other hand, _does_ dim the whole menu bar, as one might expect
(although this seems to prevent copying and pasting, which may be more of an
issue in the "Open" modall window, in which someone may wish to paste into the
"Go to" field).

Aditionally, the bookmarks toolbar should dim like the main toolbar does when
"Open" is activated, but does not.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type command-O or select "Open File" from the file menu
2.Try out the menus in the menu bar

Actual Results:  
None of the menus are grayed out. Many, but not all menu items are grayed out.

Expected Results:  
Most menus should be grayed out, except for those with menu items that are
relevent to the "Open" modal window. Bookmarks Toolbar should also be grayed
out, since clicking on those bookmarks does not (and should not) work.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

The Open File dialog need not disable all menus; see Apple's TextEdit, which
behaves similarly to Chimera.

I'd agree that Bookmarks should be disabled, though.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

(I neglected to mention that I confirmed this using Chimera/2003021707.)

Comment 3

[Jasper]

In OS X 10.2.6 there isn't any apple application that diables the main menu's
when having the open menu open. 

Look at Safari, TextEdit, Mail. All of these applications have the same
behaviour as Camino. I don't think this really is a bug.

Comment 4

[Brad Kemper]

It's true. The main menu bar is still in black and white, and it still drops down menus. So I guess it 
is the Print menu that has the anomolous behavior. Which explains why I can't copy and paste in 
the Print sheet (no edit menu), as I can in other applications.

Most of the menus in Safari that drop down have grayed out contents. The bookmarks are initially 
not disabled, but if you select a bookmark from that menu, then the menu becomes disabled.

TextEdit disables the contents of the file menu and most of the format menu. It leaves the Bold 
and Italic available, but they don't do anything. "Show Fonts" opens the fonts pallette behind the 
Open dialog.

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Confirming on 2003080102 with 10.2.6. Book mark menu should be grayed.

Comment 6

[Brad Kemper]

Do you mean the contents of the BookMark Menu, or the menu item iteself?

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Taking. This happens because the bookmarks menu does not auto-update.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181721 ***