86759 - more XUL based features

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Ruppel]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1+)
Gecko/20010619
BuildID:    2001061905

Mozilla used to include an expanding/collapsing folder and file viewer for ftp
sites.  Sadly, this was slow and for some reason it was nixed.  I suggest a
rewrite of the code, using outliner to make things faster, and a split pane view
to separate folder browsing and file displays.  In other words, make it more
like native file browsing apps (ie: windows explorer).

I'm sure separating folders from files would decrease the super long listings we
saw when the old ftp ui was in place, and would increase usability.  A non-html
interface would also allow for easier implementation of property changing (bug
64214 ) and drag and drop file upload/download/moving.

The current html-ized browsing is especially clumsy when searching through
multiple directories in a heirarchy.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to an ftp site
2.marvel at the html-ized ftp listings


Actual Results:  I wish this darn wizard would let me leave this blank.

Expected Results:  But it doesn't. ...stupid wizard...

Related to bug 69185 , but this requests an enhancement of the original design.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

-> dougt

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

what is milestone "mozilla1.0" anyway?  Moving to future.

Comment 3

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

reassigning to [e-mail].

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

We're really not an ftp app. My intention is to move to the xul as the default
though.

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

The old view wasn't nixed, it was just turned off by default.  You can get the
old view back by going to Prefs > Debug > Networking and unchecking Enable HTML
Directory Listing.

Comment 6

[benc]

This sounds like the right design for addressing all that
single-click/double-click debating that went on in previous ftp/tree bugs.

cc sairuh so she can send future XP-app comments here...

Comment 7

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I have no time to work on mozilla at the moment, so dougt is taking over FTP

open ftp bugs -> him

Comment 8

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.