233712 - No drag-and-drop for dock icon (Other than html)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Peter da Silva]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: 

Dropping an object on the dock icon should open a Firefox window with that object (link, file, etc). 
I attempted to drag a link from a Terminal window to the Dock icon, and nothing happened. 
Dragging the link to an open Firefox window opens the link as expected.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a URL in any other program.
2.drag to Firefox Dock icon.
3.drag to open Firefox window.
Actual Results:  
2.link "snapped back" to terminal window
3.link opened in existing window.

Expected Results:  
2.link opened in new window.
3.link opened in existing window.

Comment 1

[Michael Kurze [:michaelk]]

While dropping files _does_ work for me, dropping urls onto the dock icon does
work for no osx program i know, though it sounds be nice. Perhaps its not even
possible. 

WFM (files) / Wontfix (urls), I think.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

wfm per Michael Kurze's testing

Comment 3

[riscky]

I think the URL's describe are desktop link/url's ".webloc"

Some files do open like .txt but not .jpg or .gif

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 269241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Per reporter of bug 269241 : drag-and-drop works for HTML, fails for jpg, gif,
and xpi, but dragging images to Camino's dock icon works.

Comment 6

[Peter da Silva]

Shockwave Flash doesn't work for the dock icon, but does for the window.

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: patch

This one should also fix bug 266008.

Comment 8

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Kevin, in this patch i used document.icns for images / text; Since the icon is
generic, it's not an issue. Still, it would be nice to have differents icons for
text files and image files, feel free to attach them ;)

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I'd rather have someone more Mac-familiar look at this.  Maybe Javier can look?

Comment 10

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I'd rather have someone more Mac-familiar look at this.  Maybe Javier can 
look?

Javier is away, trying pinkerton.

Comment 11

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Comment on attachment 167906 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Mike, can you have a look (please note comment 8)?

Comment 12

[Kevin Gerich]

Mano, can we please support txt, css, xul, js, rdf, and webloc (and xpi and swf
maybe?)

at least everything in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/bootstrap/macbuild/Contents/Info.plist
(minus mng/jng)

Comment 13

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Mano, can we please support txt, css, xul, js, rdf, and webloc (and xpi and 
swf
> maybe?)
> at least everything in
> 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/bootstrap/macbuild/Contents/Info.plis
t
> (minus mng/jng)

Well, i did add txt, but not xul/css/js, i will add those (i don't think we 
want swf). Do we support weblocs?

Comment 14

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Comment on attachment 167906 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

removing review request. I will add a new patch later today.

Comment 15

[Peter da Silva]

Why wouldn't you want swf? You can drag swf into an open window, why wouldn't
you want to drag it into the dock.

Comment 16

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

(In reply to comment #15)
> Why wouldn't you want swf? You can drag swf into an open window, why wouldn't
> you want to drag it into the dock.

flash is a plugin, any other mentioned file type isn't.

Comment 17

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: v2

Note to everyone: Commanand+Option+Drag works for ANY
I'm not including

webloc - Firefox doesn't know to handle this file type (bug #?)
swf    - plugin, needs more tought, later.
xpi    - need to decide what kind of file it is; and sync suite & tb (please
file separate "core" bug against me)

Comment 18

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Attachment: v2

Comment 19

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Note to everyone: Commanand+Option+Drag works for ANY file type.

I'm not including (on this bug):
* webloc - Firefox doesn't know to handle this file type (bug #?)
* swf    - plugin, needs more tought, later.
* xpi    - need to decide what kind of file it is; and sync ff, tb & suite
(please file separate "core" bug against me)

Comment 20

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 167960 [details] [diff] [review]
v2

we should try to keep these in sync with the camino ones. there's an open bug
to add a few new types to camino. check there for others.

r=pink.

Comment 21

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

landed by smontagu.

Please file separate bugs for other file types (after disscution, we really
shoudn't enable any file type you may succeed to open) and cc me.

Comment 22

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 266008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 316405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***