242193 - Adding shortcut creation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[JW vanLohuizen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040429 MultiZilla/1.6.3.2a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040429 MultiZilla/1.6.3.2a

make .url extension (internet shortcut) open Mozilla.  It now only opens I.E.
(and Avant) and add to the context menu the ability to create a .url (internet
shortcut )that is sent to the desktop like I.E.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

loading .url files is bug 69114

creating .url files from context menu seems to be new... to gui features,
although this may be wontfix.

JW, please only report one issue per bug report in the future...

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[JW vanLohuizen]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".
> 
> This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
> bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
> highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.
> 
> While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
> are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce
> this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
> copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
> you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
> (given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
> reproduction information if you have it.
> 
> If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
> changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved.
> Thank you for your help in this matter.
> 
> The latest beta releases can be obtained from:
> Firefox:     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
> Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html
> Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
> 


The first problem has been fixed.  The second request has not.

In I.E. you can place a shortcut to the URl as a .url extension file to the
desktop.  This would be great to be included in Mozilla as well. 
 
It could go under File>Send Link> then have 2 options, 

1 Email Message (or) 
2 Desktop Shortcut

Thanks  

Comment 4

[Benoît]

Changed summary to reflect the request of only the secondly mentioned issue.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Creating shortcuts is the window manager's task (by right-clicking the desktop).

I suggest WONTFIX or even INVALID.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

If you drag a link, bookmark, proxy icon etc. to the desktop this should create a shortcut to the location in question.

As far as I know the shortcut always opens the default browser, whichever that is. It may be that previous versions did not set themselves as default in the way that Internet shortcuts expected.

Comment 8

[Phoenix]

Closing as worksforme based on Comment 7