76269 - xul directory viewer - back button does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Tom Everingham]

Overview Description:  Can not use back button to navigate to a previously 
viewed level in the directory tree.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.)  Go to the url
2.)  Click on the directory (not twisty) you want to expand to view contents
3.)  Click on the back button

Actual Results:  Cannot go back to the previously viewed directory

Expected Results:  should be able to go back

Build Date & Platform Bug Found:  Win, Mac, Linux 4/16/2001 builds

Additional Information:  This is also apparent if you click on the twisty (as 
opposed to clicking on the dir name) and try to use the back button.  If you 
press 'Back', the directory tree is refreshed but its state never changes.  But 
in this case you can use the twistys to navigate.

There is a bug opened already for supplying a mechanism to go up to a previous 
viewed level.

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

setting milestone...

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Futuring all directory viewer bugs.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

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

Comment 4

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

bbaetz, we need to figure out how to handle this when the dirviewer is moved to
outliner...

Comment 5

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I noticed yesterday that clicking reload loads the directory.html file dougt
added for the ftp logging, and ftp logging doesn't work anyway.

I won't look at this til my rewrite lands, though, but it is still a problem...

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This WFM now. The reload thing is another bug I have, and is ftp specific.

Going 'back' and having the twisty be open is a feature, in that we persist the
openess of urls, and since we've seen it, it was open.