GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 116726
'Show in bookmarks toolbar' should be in context menu
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
In the bookmarks editor I have to select 'Show in bookmarks toolbar' from the File menu to access that item. This is a typical item I would expect in the context menu of topics and bookmark items.
we had discussion of this in bug 112660. At the time my general opinion was that the method to add bookmarks should be dnd and that the file menu item was provided mostly for a11y reasons. Hence I was somewhat against the context menu item, because I really envision few people actually editting the toolbar anyway and the direct manipulation method seemed more intuitive and more likely to be used. Do we have any reason to believe otherwise at this time?
Weird that even I didn't think of dnd'ing a topic to the bookmarks toolbar. I guess plain list items don't look very inviting to dnd. Anyway, in the current situation, adding an item to the bm toolbar with dnd can't be reversed using dnd. That's one reason for an alternate UI. Second. The items in the bm editor and the bm toolbar are the exact same things, so it would be logical to use the same context menu on them as well. Once they're on the bm toolbar, a common case action on a toolbar item would be to remove it from the toolbar. You might implement that by letting the user drag the toolbar item to the Trash but that would have to literally remove that item from all of the bookmarks and put it in the Trash. Hence, a context menu item '[./] Show on bookmarks toolbar' is more consistent and less destructive than other solutions (that I can come up with right now).
Dave, do you agree with Reinouts arguments ? If we can find an agreement I guess we could consider this part of ui review and get in a fix before 1.0, otherwise I guess it will have to wait.
Yeah sure why not :) at the very least once toolbar items have context menu items they can be the same ones as the bookmarks editor has etc.
fixed in cvs