GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 40218
Small, draggable icon at left of the location bar
Last modified: 2005-04-13 13:03:34 UTC
This is a way to make either a bookmark, which can be added to the bookmark list or dropped in the file system to make a link file. (To make this complete, you should be able to drag out of the bookmarks window as well.) ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-04-10 10:47:42 ---- Reducing the number of components for ease of use: zoom control and uri field bugs are now in Navigation; Location Bar is no more. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-09-08 15:29:53 ---- Setting all bugs to P6 to start official bug-prioritization plan. Please don't set the priority to anything other than P6 unless you've got the gold seal of approval for doing so. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 20:19:26 ---- Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com ------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2000-11-25 02:59:10 ---- I always found this UI element really confusing in netscape. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:20:25 ---- SPAAAAAAAAAM! (Jon Allen has taken these components; QA Assigning bugs to him.) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:39 -------
This should probably be marked won'tfix, as mozilla doesn't even have this now, and mjs said he didn't like this idea.
Both galeon and mozilla still have this. Seth: any thoughts on the UI-ness of this enhancement?
hm. I guess I don't have strong feelings about this. I like the general ability to drag files out of an application (more so a web browser than other applications, since people usually save the *url* rather than the page itself, hence the "content to be saved" is more the URL itself rather than the page, though obviously in the end its likely the page that is of interest). That said, I have been unimpressed with the "draggable thing to the left of the location bar" approach. My impression has been most people are unaware of this feature. On the other hand its probably not a usability problem to have it there, and I bet most people who find it will figure out what it does w/o too much trouble. Having a useful icon, say the page/bookmark icon (which lots of web sites now set) could also make it more palatable. But that's not terribly relevant to Nautilus. Um, sorry, losing track here. So I guess my feeling is that I think it wouldn't hurt to have this in Nautilus, assuming it uses the current folder's icon not some generic "drag source icon". Looking at Mozilla and Galeon, I like the way Mozilla handles this much better. It would also be nice to have drop down history like Mozilla. Maybe implementation of the two would go together. On the other hand, I don't think its a huge interface win.
Thought about this a little more. Mozilla can use favicons, so for a webview it would be nice to use the webpage favicon.
*** Bug 42934 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
a related way to accomplish the same thing (without the need for a location bar) is bug 129421.
I mark this bug as duplicate of #129421 since, most of the time, there's no URL bar anymore (spatial nautilus rox ;-) ) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129421 ***