59608 - customizable (personal) taskbar, maximum time saver

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17306

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[André Langhorst]

(not sure if is the right component, it also applies to the mail front end and 
could be useful in every place of mozilla where menus are present and you´ve to 
perform more than one click to reach several options)

1)
similar to the personal toolbar, a personal taskbar would contain "actions" 
like "View->Headers->all","Task->Chatzilla","Edit->Preferences","Message-
>Forward As->inline" and many, many more you can think of...
Then every regularly used action can be accessed with ONE click without the 
need to perform over and over the same annoying procedures (eg. me, I use View-
>Headers->All|normal a lot to verify origin etc.)

It would be an enormous enhancement over the current situation where 
only "Search","Go","Print" and such are configurable in the Prefs.
I can build an unlimited amount of scenarios where this could be practicable.

2)
A further enhancement over this would be to allow not only singular actions, 
rather than allowing TOGGLES. eg. In my case it would be fine to have two 
entries in this personal taskbar
"All Headers" - "Normal Headers"
compared to the current situation.

But it would be a lot better to be able to toggle/switch through a bunch of 
options in a whole menu. In my case
"Switch Headers"
what switches between the two available options View->Headers->All, View-
>Headers->Normal

another switch could be "Message->Forward As" to switch between 
inline/attachement

another could be "Character Coding" and so on, depending on user behaviour they 
can customzie mozilla more flexible and easy than possible with ANY other 
browser I know of...

Comment 1

[timeless]

reporter, there are a few possibilities:
1. you write a personal toolbar with these capabilities and you are happy 
[helpwanted]
2. you want to be able to drag and drop menuitems from the menubar onto your 
toolbar because you don't want to have to keep track of the events yourself
[ben/hyatt, vixen?]

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

this is _so_ a dupe of ben's bug. 

Comment 3

[André Langhorst]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17306 ***

Comment 4

[John Morrison]

For sure, eh.