188574 - Add bookmarks menu on Chatzilla window

Status: NEW

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Ruslan Ismailov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030110

As stated in bug 72702 and bug 89713 there is ability to add bookmarks for chat
channels in browser bookmars panel. But in Chatzilla Window there is no trace of
this ability, so I find it only after searching Bugzilla. I think it would be
nice (and easy to use), if Bookmarks menu would be added to Chatzilla window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

*** Bug 204417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Steve Anonymous]

I'm for this too.

It would be very convenient to have a bookmark drop down menu from the chatzilla
frame.

It would make opening new irc channels/servers very convenient.

Steve

Comment 3

[ken Phillis Jr]

I aggree with you... this would help make chatzilla have a cleaner interface...

Comment 4

[ken Phillis Jr]

i believe a irc.html file set up similarly to the mozilla bookmark file may be
in order... here is an example for a bookmark file...

The set up should be the same as the bookmark.html that mozilla's browser uses.

Comment 5

[Max Alekseyev]

Why not just keep ChatZilla links in bookmarks.html as treat them as the others ?

Comment 6

[Max Alekseyev]

I mean irc:// links are perfectly supported by Mozilla and there is no need
treat them separately. The bookmarks file / interface should be common for
ChatZilla and Mozilla. So the user will be able to open, say, http:// links in
ChatZilla as well as irc:// links in Mozilla from the bookmarks menu.

Comment 7

[Felix Miata]

My bookmarks.html is over 400K. I'd hate to have to navigate through that to
find one of a handful of irc items. A separate file probably wouldn't get big
enough to need management.

Comment 8

[Max Alekseyev]

Felix, I disagree. It is always possible to put all irc:// links into separate
folder, and even put that folder into Personal Toolbar Folder for quicker access. 
I'd truly prefer if irc:// links would not be any different than http:// or
ftp:// links assuming, in particular, the same storage file bookmarks.html 
Uniformity is the way to go.

Comment 9

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Isn't this impossible if we keep trying to support XULRunner? Bookmarks are not
present there, so it'd seem fairly impossible to me. CANTFIX? (Without breaking
support / consistency for at least one of the platforms we run on - I don't know
how easy this is to do on Firefox.

Comment 10

[:Gijs (he/him)]

*** Bug 321875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Mick Weiss]

If it were to be kept separate than the FF bookmarks, it would be possible to do it w/o breaking XULRunner. 

Robert, if you (don't want to|are too busy to) work on this, then change the "Assigned To:" to me.

thanks,

- Mick

Comment 12

[Samuel Sieb]

Since we can't use the real bookmarks menu on xulrunner and I don't think that's a good idea anyways, this bug will be for implementing our own list of irc bookmarks.  irc:// bookmarks will still work in the host browser.

Comment 13

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Any progress here, Mick?

Comment 14

[Mick Weiss]

Sorry, I am buried with ClamWin stuff. 

I did have some code but it was just a menu w/ links (no management tool), but that was lost with my laptop dying. 

I also don't have time to continue with this (though I'd love to) :-(

My guess is that it would be best if this was assigned to someone else. (it has taken way too long)

- Mick

Comment 15

[James Ross]

ChatZilla only supports Gecko 1.9.1+, which is Firefox 3.5+ and in Firefox 3.0 FUEL added support for enumation and editing of bookmarks... so we could probably do this using the existing MenuManager functionality via FUEL.