199998 - Can't drag and drop url onto the icon of a folder located on the personal toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Max Waterman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327

If you drag the URL icon and attempt to drop it directly on a folder icon on the
personal toolbar, it will create a new bookmark on the toolbar, rather than
adding the bookmark to the folder. If you drop it on the name of the folder,
then it behaves as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.drag URL icon from location field
2.drop on a folder icon on the personal toolbar
3.

Actual Results:  
new bookmark on personal toolbar

Expected Results:  
new icon in folder

Comment 1

[Andreas Kunz]

Umm... I just wanted to confirm this one because I also noticed something like
this, but now it works for me with CVS build 2003032701 on Win2k.

Bug 199364 is closely related. 
Please cc [e-mail] if this bug gets confirmed. He did much of the
recent bookmarks work.

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Max, can you please try to reproduce bug 199364?
I don't see that one anymore although I still use the same builds and profiles.
Ind I'm sure I saw your bug here.
Maybe they are related intermittent problems - or they sort of only occur on the
first day of using the new bookmarks system...

Comment 3

[Max Waterman]

Tried 199364, and couldn't reproduce; ie the bookmark moved fine. They also
won't drop into a folder if you drop it on the actual icon, but will if you drop
it on the name of the folder.

By mistake, I dropped a bookmark in a folder, and couldn't see a way to
drag&drop it back out of the folder, but I suspect that's a separate issue (I
used the Manage Bookmarks... tool to do it).

Also, I just downloaded the most recent build (2003033108) and it also does not
behave correctly when you drop onto the folder icon; ie the problem is still
current.

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaMach/2003032808. Revising summary.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

Using the 2003-04-01-08 Macho build, I'm not getting a bookmark added to the
folder (or the personal toolbar) when drag/dropping the proxy url to the
bookmarks folder loacte on the personal toolbar. This same issue is occuring
under the Windows build (2003-04-01-08) as well. Basically I can't create
bookmarks when I drag and drop proxy urls into the bookmark folder on the
personal toolbar.

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

This now seems to WorksForMe using FizzillaMach/2003040103 (1.4a). Max, please
retest.

(Could this have been fixed by one of the recent Bookmarks improvements
described by <http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3008>?)

Comment 7

[Max Waterman]

I'm now testing build 2003040108.

Behaviour is now not consistent. Sometimes the bookmark is dropped in the
folder, as intended, and sometimes it isn't. I tried to drop it over different
parts of the folder icon, but there didn't seem to be any correlation between
which part of the folder icon it was dropped on and whether it was put in the
folder or to the left of the folder.

Better, but still not there, I think.

Max.

Comment 8

[Samir Gehani]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 9

[Pete Hammer]

Dropping URL proxy on folders now works, but the problem I reported in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171582 still applies: you can't
navigate INTO the folder to place the URL where you want it in the folder or
subfolders.  The toolbar icon for the folder won't open up if you pause the drag
on it.

This is in build 2003050714 OSX.

Comment 10

[Pete Hammer]

URL dropping by navigating INTO toolbar folders/subfolders still broken in build
2003052703, OSX.  

(I keep reporting this in other toolbar bugs, several of which end up resolved,
even tho this particular aspect hasn't worked for me on any mac version since
1.2.   I guess I should open up a specific bug for this?)

Comment 11

[Chris Petersen]

Updated summary to reflect current issue.

Comment 12

[james marca]

I just upgraded from 1.3x to 1.4.1 and noticed that dragging a bookmark to a
subfolder fails.  So I built new versions of 1.5, and now 1.6a and still get
this bug.  My platform is linux, Slackware 9.1, kernel 2.4.22, X version 4.3.0.
 Instead of being able to place the bookmark where it belongs, the bookmark is
"dropped", with a small icon of a sheet of paper left hanging, as if the mouse
forgot that it was dragging a bookmark when the folders started to cascade open.
 The first layer works fine, that is drag a bookmark to a folder in the personal
toolbar and let go and it pops in at the end.  But you can't try to place it
within the folder, since as soon as the folder opens the bookmark is dropped,
and that icon appears.  It even is sticky, appearing in different workspaces,
and doesn't disappear until you click somewhere in the personal toolbar folder. 

(BTW, first time using bugzilla, so if this is annoying or noise, please excuse.
 At least I did find an open bug first.)

Comment 13

[Pete Hammer]

At least you get the folders to open. They still don't open for me.

Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Comment 14

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

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 15

[benc]

qa to me. severity=minor, users can easily discover the working behavior + the
accidental bookmark is easy to delete | move.

Ben: Do you want to target or future this bug?

Comment 16

[Andreas Kunz]

benc:
this does not happen on Win, so did you see it on Linux or why all/all?

Comment 17

[Pete Hammer]

Please re-read my comments (#9, #10 and #13).  This is the issue that remains,
and there is no work-around (other than Manage Bookmarks).  I still can't drag a
URL into the sub-folders - they don't even OPEN UP.  This has been broken on the
Mac for over a year now.  Doesn't anyone else use the toolbar this way?

My main-level toolbar folders have now accumulated so many bookmarks that they
have to scroll, because I never get around to Managing them back into the
appropriate subfolders.

Comment 18

[benc]

I forgot to mention, this happens to me on Win XP, Mozilla 1.6f.

Comment 19

[Andreas Kunz]

benc:
Huh? Really? With 1.7b on WinXP dropping on toplevel folders in the personal
toolbars (what this bug is about) works for me: the bookmark is dropped into the
folder - no matter if I do it so quickly that the folder did not open before
releasing the mouse button or if I wait until it opened.
And dropping into subfolders of those also works (no matter if open or still
closed).
Are you sure you are dropping on the folders and not next to them?

Comment 20

[Pete Hammer]

Let's get this clarified.  The issue I am complaining about on the Mac is
dragging to sub-folders of the folders on the toolbar.  Dragging to the toolbar,
and to folders on the toolbar, works fine.  As far as I know, dragging to
sub-folders has NEVER worked on the Mac, 1.0 - 1.7, OS9 and OSX.   It worked on
at least some of the windows builds I've used.  So make this Mac only or
whatever, but at least clarify what it is.

I think this bug keeps getting confused as to what exactly is wrong.  I repeat:
dragging to the toolbar, and to FOLDERS on the toolbar works, attempts to drag
into a SUBFOLDER of a toolbar folder DOESN'T work - the folders don't pop open.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316  

Comment 21

[roman toledo]

same old thing, can't drag a url into a sub folder in the boommarks

Comment 22

[Max Waterman]

I think a new bug should be opened. The summary is OK, but I didn't open the bug
for that reason. This bug was due to the bookmark appearing on the toolbar
instead of in a folder.

I don't use Mozilla any more, but I have Mozilla 1.8a5 (20041122) and it still
has this problem. Dropping the favicon onto a folder icon in the toolbar does
not create a bookmark *in* the folder but on the toolbar itself. FWIW, I now use
Firefox, which doesn't seem to have this problem.


I think the sub-folders issue would get more response with a new bug report.
Please consider opening one.

Comment 23

[Max Waterman]

Readjusted summary to reflect original bug.

Comment 24

[benc]

-> defaults

Comment 25

[Pete Hammer]

I am attempting to revive attention on this bug.  It occurs in firefox 1.0.3
also, and still in the most current builds on mozilla.  

I suggest altering the summary of this bug to:
Can't drag and drop url into a SUBfolder located on the personal toolbaf

Dragging a URL to a folder on the toolbar won't open the folders on the toolbar,
so you can't drag into sub-folders of the folders.  Dragging to the toolbar, and
to folders on the toolbar, works fine.  As far as I know, dragging to 
sub-folders has NEVER worked for me on the Mac, 1.0 - 1.7, OS9 and OSX.  

Creating a new profile doesn't help.

Comment 26

[Max Waterman]

(In reply to comment #25)
> I am attempting to revive attention on this bug.  It occurs in firefox 1.0.3
> also, and still in the most current builds on mozilla.  
> 
> I suggest altering the summary of this bug to:
> Can't drag and drop url into a SUBfolder located on the personal toolbaf
> 
> Dragging a URL to a folder on the toolbar won't open the folders on the toolbar,
> so you can't drag into sub-folders of the folders.  Dragging to the toolbar, and
> to folders on the toolbar, works fine.  As far as I know, dragging to 
> sub-folders has NEVER worked for me on the Mac, 1.0 - 1.7, OS9 and OSX.  
> 
> Creating a new profile doesn't help.

You are describing a different bug. Why not open a new bug instead of changing
this one?

Max.

Comment 27

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #21)
> same old thing, can't drag a url into a sub folder in the boommarks

This works on XP Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050720 SeaMonkey/1.0a


(In reply to comment #23)
> Readjusted summary to reflect original bug.

the original bug is you can't drop onto the folder *icon* on the toolbar, which
also does work, to a point.  This is how it appears to behave.

If the folder icon is open then you can drop it, if the folder icon is closed
you can't.  The folder icon is open if you are (roughly) in the right half of
the icon. If you are in the left half it is not.  

Exploration shows the behavior is based on DISTANCE from the middle, middle
being half way between leftmost edge of a folder icon and the rightmost edge of
the text of the folder to it's left. In both cases, going left or right from the
middle, the distance is the same when the folder opens to allow you to drop -
otherwise it drops between the two folders.

Max and others, does this accurately describe what you are seeing?  Are you
asking to have the folder opened over more of the icon's surface?


(In reply to comment #25)
> I am attempting to revive attention on this bug.  
> As far as I know, dragging to 
> sub-folders has NEVER worked for me on the Mac, 1.0 - 1.7, OS9 and OSX.  

this would be a different bug

Comment 28

[Max Waterman]

(In reply to comment #27)
> the original bug is you can't drop onto the folder *icon* on the toolbar, which
> also does work, to a point.  This is how it appears to behave.
> 
> If the folder icon is open then you can drop it, if the folder icon is closed
> you can't.  The folder icon is open if you are (roughly) in the right half of
> the icon. If you are in the left half it is not.  
> 
> Exploration shows the behavior is based on DISTANCE from the middle, middle
> being half way between leftmost edge of a folder icon and the rightmost edge of
> the text of the folder to it's left. In both cases, going left or right from the
> middle, the distance is the same when the folder opens to allow you to drop -
> otherwise it drops between the two folders.
> 
> Max and others, does this accurately describe what you are seeing?  Are you
> asking to have the folder opened over more of the icon's surface?
> 

I don't see this behaviour at all. The folder icons do not open at all, no
matter where I drag the pointer/favicon.

Also, it still behaves as I orginally described. I zoomed in using
option-command-+ and I see that, if I drop the favicon on the folder icon, it
doesn't go into the folder, but if I drop it even on the shadow of the folder
icon, it goes into the folder.

I see you are using a Microsoft OS. I'm not. Perhaps that is relevant. IINM, I
logged this bug against Mac OS X, but people have messed around with it a lot
since then. ... or perhaps I'm wrong. In any case, please feel free to adjust
the platform/os if you think this works ok on Microsoft.

Comment 29

[Pete Hammer]

For lack of drag/drop into subfolder functionality for Mozilla and Firefox in
OSX, I opened a new bug: bug 299185

"Toolbar folders don't open when a url is dragged onto them - prevents placement
of bookmarks in subfolders or where desired in order in folders"

Comment 30

[Pete Hammer]

Seamonkey STILL has this bug, in fact, the URLs won't even drop in/onto toolbar icons now, they only show up at the root level of the toolbar.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060215 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Comment 31

[Nicholas Hester]

Working fine as of Beta 2

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

Comment 32

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM suite, subfolders as well - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112702 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre