257257 - Double clicking file icon in download window should open document

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, enhancement)

Description

[Manfred Schubert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040623 Camino/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040623 Camino/0.8

Double clicking the file icon the the download window should open the document
in the default application for this document.

Safari does that, and it comes very handy when you want to mount a disk image or
view a picture in Preview without having to switch to Finder first.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

sounds good to me.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

note that the simple workaround for this is to use the "open" button in the
toolbar. That's exactly why it's there. That said, this is still a good idea.

Comment 3

[Josh Aas]

I'm a bit worried about people double clicking to select a download for use with
a button and inadvertently opening it. It doesn't seem clear to me that double
clicking the file icon might open it.

Comment 4

[Manfred Schubert]

Maybe this icon could also be draggable. So that the user can change the save
location by dragging from the download window. Or the user can drag it onto an
application in the Dock. Behave much like a proxy icon in the window title.

Safari doesn't do that though.

Comment 5

[Josh Aas]

[12:23pm] joshHome: I don't like the bug about using the file icon in the
download manager to do things like open
[12:24pm] petard: joshHome: why's that?
[12:24pm] joshHome: that seems dangerous to me, it has an unclear UI, and its
not worth the time to implement based on the very few people who would use it
[12:25pm] joshHome: dangerous in that people will accidentally double click it
and kick off processes they don't want
[12:25pm] petard: hmm
[12:25pm] petard: double-click usually means "do the default thing"
[12:26pm] petard: which would be open.
[12:26pm] joshHome: not in a single-click list format like the dl manager, and
what makes opening the actual file the default thing?
[12:26pm] pinkerton: hrm
[12:26pm] joshHome: on top of all of this, the UI is totally unclear - there is
no indicator that the double click on that particular spot will do something
[12:26pm] petard: i can confirm that i regularly attempt to double-click and/or
drag the file icon, just because it *looks* like it should work.
[12:26pm] joshHome: either people won't know about it, or they will do it
accidentally
[12:26pm] pinkerton: recall though that in panther apple did add a UI that will
prompt when you launch an app for the first time not by doubleclicking it in the
finder
[12:27pm] pinkerton: i guess that doesn't help us in jaguar
[12:27pm] joshHome: no - but its even annoying to start unstuffing a 600 MB file
when you don't mean to
[12:27pm] petard: maybe double-clicking an item in the dl manager should "reveal
in finder"?
[12:28pm] joshHome: I'd be happier with that, but in that case it should be
double clicking the entire dl item, not just the icon
[12:28pm] petard: sure
[12:28pm] pinkerton: i get complaints in feedback that read like "i expect dbl
click to open it, it's annoying to have to find it in the finder first, then run it"
[12:28pm] pinkerton: it's like they don't know the open button in on the toolbar
[12:28pm] pinkerton: they just expect dbl click to make it so
[12:29pm] joshHome: I vote we move the bug to revealing and mark it 1.0 or future
[12:29pm] pinkerton: i'm ok with moving to 1.0, let's not change it yet
[12:29pm] joshHome: ok

Comment 6

[Martin Girschick]

I think doubleclicking a download to open it is quite common and it should be
added to camino. As was suggest in bug 230015 it might be an idea to use
option-doubleclick to remove the entry from the downloadmanager after opening it.

Comment 7

[L. H.]

Fixed in recent nightly builds