GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 116809
shift+click on link should prompt to save file
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
get dialog to select file name and then save file ( same as in galeon ).
Galeon has removed this feature lately. Anyone know the reason why? At first sight this seems a reasonable request, as Netscape has behaved like this since the beginning of recorded history...
Uhm I actually see comments about having added it in galeon, not removed.
Alan comment: It has annoyed me many times when trying to use IE that it behaveddifferently from Mozilla. The wisest thing to do is probably to followMozilla's behaviour.In mozilla Shift Click gives a save (download) dialog,Ctrl+Click opens a new window also if you have a three button (or wheel)mouse middle click will open a new window.
I've seen several sites that advise shift clicking to download a file. I think it's a convention worth keeping. I'm attaching a patch against 0.8.2.
Created attachment 19230 [details] [review] prompt to download link on shift click
Unfortunately we are freezed until September and we cant check in the patch. I'll look at it as soon as we branch though. (2 weeks or so).
Please see bug 110786 for an updated version of this patch that also recognizes Ctrl-click.
Should we also support saving an image with mod+click? Galeon 1.x had this behaviour, and I sort of liked it... It used ctrl+click, but if it's universally agreed that ctrl+click should open a link in a new window/tab, we could use alt or sth.
Cant we use shift click for images to ? The action is the same, save ...
The problem is with images which are links ... would the shift+click save the image, or the linked file?
I see hmmm. I'd just like to keep the number of accels low, they are completely arbitrary... Dave, opinions ?
i'm ok with shift-click == download link. Also i think alt+click should be the equivalent of middle-click everywhere as well.
What about images ? See chpe comment.
First, I don't think ctrl+click should do anything other than disjointed selection in a file manager :P Alt+click is somewhat standard, although now that I think of it alt+click may be used single button mouse users to display context menus. OF course nautilus uses alt+drag to be the equivalent of middle-click and drag. hmmm... ok, regarding chpe's comment i think the behavior should be consistent, ie. if you shift+click a thumbnail it downloads the full picture that the thumbnail link points at. However shift+clicking a jpeg for instance should do nothing. My guess is that the amount time it takes you to think and use the keymodifier is significantly slow enough where where file->save will be faster to use (or if you're into making your self slower you can use ctrl+s). Might need to ask seth his take on this too, but I'd guess that he'd agree that keyboard modified mouse click take about as long to think about as keyboard shortcuts do.
The patch in bug 110786 contained shift-click to save as well, altough, in line with our current downloading behaviour, it does not prompt. Btw, we can't use alt-click for anything since metacity steals those :/