278054 - Feature Request: Enable addBookmarks.xul to display one folder and all subfolders

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[thaths]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050105 Debian/1.7.5-1

Currently when I call addBookmarks.xul to add a bookmark, the tree in the UI
starts at the bookmark root. Would it be possible to add a feature to
addBookmarks.xul whereby the UI only shows the folders and subfolders of the
folder ID that is passed to addBookmarks.xul through its arguments?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Its probably possible, but I don't think we want/need to go there.  Its
certainly not something we'd use in the core UI at this point, and given how
weird the "Manage Folder" UI is, I doubt it'd be that stable.

Comment 2

[thaths]

I doubt if it will have any major impact on stability. All the code has to do is
take the extra argument passed to addBookmarks.xul and set the tree element's
ref attribute to the passed argument and rebuild the tree.

Would you accept a patch if I sent one that implemented this feature?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We tend to not take code that we're not going to use, since once its in, people
start to depend on it being there.  If this is for an extension, its more
appropriate to roll your own dialog.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change