60446 - Directory View should also have iconic view and have explorer functionality

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

There should be an iconic directory view like the Windows native directory view. 
It should have two views, list (already exists) and iconic form. FTP view should 
be identical. When you right click on it in windows, it should give you a copy 
of the native windows popup menu (with the theme applied) that you see when you 
right click on an icon in explorer.

Comment 1

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

It should also allow dragging icons into folders, etc.

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

--> networking enhancement, even though some of these ideas are hard/impossible
in an XP inviroment

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

*** Bug 60445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

valid enhancement request.  Native popup menus are very unlikely, though.

Comment 5

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Also it would be nice to be able to drag icons, delete, etc. Hey you could beat 
Microsoft at their own game, you could cross into their domain by allowing 
directory view much the same as their own software does.

If you can not figure out a way to call the system popup menu function (which 
must be residing in a Windows DLL some where, a close emulation would be 
appreciated. Other OSes can have their respective menus called or whatever. 

Please remove that file:// protocol header for local files (I don't know if 
there is a bug out for that already). It is not necessary outside of webpages.

*nix:
/usr/blah/file.jpg

Windows:
Drive:\blah\file.jpg
also accept:
Drive:/blah/file.jpg or /blah/file.jpg  -> (map to) C:\blah\file.jpg 
-> C:\blah\file.jpg
Desktop -> Show "Desktop" files
My Computer  -> Show "My Computer"
Control Panel -> Show "Control Panel"
System -> Show "System"
Administrative Tools (For NT) -> Show "Administrative Tools"
Recycle Bin -> Show "Recycle Bin"
Printers -> Show "Printers"
etc. etc.

Thanks

Comment 6

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Should I file those in seperate bugs?

Comment 7

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

Also, a local file finder sidebar would be nice like windows has.

Comment 8

[Gagan]

->dougt

Comment 9

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 10

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Directory Viewer bugs - Reassigning to XPApps / [e-mail]

Comment 11

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

-> bbaetz

Comment 12

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Well, its not impossible, I guess.

But I really don't think we should fix this. Maybe it will be easier when we get
ftp upload/deletion/etc ui, but I wouldn't count on it.

Comment 13

[nnooiissee]

This would be interesting. It would be fun to turn it on and pretend I am
running Windows--mostly for the comfortable and smug knowledge that I am not.

Comment 14

[benc]

->file handling + qa.

I'm so glad sairuh & I had a meeting today about the boundaries of Networking
<-> File Handling...

Comment 15

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

We would need the directory listing outputted in XML format. To fix this fully,
we'd need to be able to show directory listings in a more attractive way, which
we still don't do yet even for FTP. In the meantime, we could make Mozilla able
to parse a new format of XML files, just like it does for RSS.