404214 - Allow dragging of bookmark folders on the bookmark bar by holding cmd

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Colin Barrett [:cbarrett]]

In a bunch of Mac applications (Adium is one of them) by holding command and dragging you can perform some other sort of drag action.

In this case, it would allow you to drag around folders of bookmarks on the bookmarks bar. IIRC this was one of the most common complaints I got when I asked for feedback from folks about Firefox 2 on the Mac on my blog.

Not sure if this is the right component (maybe toolbars?)

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

actually we support SHIFT+drag, see bug 389914.

Comment 2

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

If a complex keyboard shortcut falls down in the woods, does it make a sound? :) More seriously, could we turn the downclick into a drag operation if the user down clicks and drags the mouse passed a certain horizontal threshold?  That would make the interaction a little more direct manipulation-ish, avoiding crazy keyboard combo land.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

we wanted to support the classic "click&hold, go down and release on the element you want to visit". That's why we  use a keyboard combo. From what Mano told me that was a design choice...
Moreover on Linux we cannot do that at all because we have to avoid menu open, or the drag will fail at all (and to do that we detect the shift down)

Comment 4

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

So there is no way to support both?

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

it would require some serious hack to establish what of the two actions the user is trying to accomplish based on mouse movement. we could try but that would steal time to other issues to create a complex fix to something that already works. We could try but not an high priority imo.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 235244 has made this invalid/useless