301983 - empty folder has toolbar and file and edit commands all greyed out

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

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

steps to reproduce:
1. manage bookmarks
2. create empty folder
3. r-click empty folder and "open in new folder" 

results:
all toolbar icons (eg. new folder, new separator), file commands (new bookmark)
and edit commands (paste) are greyed out, (see attachment)

expected results:
commands/toolbar items that can create objects in the folder are functional

(possible dup of Bug 230563 - but won't know til the patch for it tests out)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: bookmark mgr window of empty folder

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

I'm seeing this even with a folder that does have bookmarks as long as none of
them are selected.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm seeing this even with a folder that does have bookmarks as long as none of
> them are selected.

quite right.

select said folder
click and drag a bookmark from the window to another window
no bookmark is selected (a bug?)
functions are greyed out.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

similar symptoms in FF bug 250821 and Bug 250821

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

enabling the menu and toolbars is easy enough.  Just return true here:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/bookmarks/resources/bookmarks.js#867

The problem is that (because of the way XUL/js work) actually creating a new
folder/bookmark, etc needs to have a target (something selected)
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/bookmarks/resources/bookmarks.js#946
so that it knows where to put it.  If nothing is selected, the new item should
go into the top-level location, but I don't know how to get ahold of the
top-level location from that context.

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

Can't reproduce this as no menu item "Open in new window" available, so closing as WFM
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15a1
Build identifier: 20120921003032