Closed Bug 307857 Opened 19 years ago Closed 1 month ago

Show information about a link when dragging and dropping

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: Drag & Drop, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
Drag & Drop
Platform:
All
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jbrsh, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050813 Camino/0.9a2+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050813 Camino/0.9a2+

When dragging a link on a page to another program or to the tab bar to open in a
new tab, the name and address of that link could appear under the mouse as it is
dragged. This is what happens in Safari.

In Safari, a black bezel (ie. semi-transparent rounded rectangle) appears under
the mouse with the name of the link and the address under the name in white
text. See Safari to see exactly what I mean.

Not only does this look attractive, but I find it quite useful to see the name
and address of the link, particularly if the link itself does not give anything
away about the site it links to.

Reproducible: Always
Confirming as a RFE. Targeting for 1.1.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Camino1.1
Whiteboard: [good first bug]
This is loosely related to bug 178513.
Assignee: mikepinkerton → nobody
QA Contact: drag.drop
Target Milestone: Camino1.1 → Camino2.0
Target Milestone: Camino2.0 → ---
Taking to keep it on my radar.
Assignee: nobody → cl-bugs-new
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Hardware: PowerPC → All
Not on my radar any more anyway :-p
Assignee: cl-bugs-new2 → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Hello people. I am new around here. I would like to work on this bug. Please guide me on what to do.
Stuart, this probably isn't a [good first bug], is it?  My SWAG is that we'd have to override Gecko's own drag images, if that's even possible, but I really don't know.
Yes, this comes from widget/src/cocoa/nsDragService.mm, and there's no hook for us to override it. It's really something that would have to be changed in Gecko--and of course, changing Gecko no longer helps us. So unless we wanted to mini-branch for this, we should probably WONTFIX (can't-fix) it.

In 2006 when widget/cocoa was just our code, it might have been a good first bug ;)
If you are interested in getting involved in Camino development, I'd suggest stopping by the irc channel and talking to us; our [good first bug] list is not particularly well maintained.
Whiteboard: [good first bug]
Alright, thanks.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 month ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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