Development:Planning:Menu item validation

This is an ongoing attempt at auditing the validation state of all our menu items. A similar page exists for toolbar item validation. Any menu items that don't specify validation parameters are always enabled.

Application (Camino) menu

• About Camino
• Preferences
• Reset Camino
• Empty Cache
  • Should be disabled if the cache is empty (new bug needed)
• Services (submenu)
• Hide Camino
  • Should be disabled if Camino is the only app showing (works)
• Hide Others
  • Should be disabled if Camino is the only app showing (works)
• Show All
  • Should be disabled if all apps are showing (works)
• Quit Camino

File menu

• New Window
• New Tab
• Open File
  • Should be disabled if a sheet is up (works)
• Open Location
  • Should be disabled if a sheet is up (works)
• Close Window
• Close All Windows (alternate)
• Close Tab
  • Should be disabled if there's only one tab open in the current window (works)
• Save As
  • Should be disabled for all about:URIs (Bug number needed)
• Email Page Location
  • Should be disabled for all about:URIs (Bug number needed, or possibly new bug)
  • Should be disabled for view-source URIs
• Import Bookmarks
• Export Bookmarks
• Page Setup
  • Should be disabled for all about:URIs (Bug number needed, or possibly new bug)
• Print
  • Should be disabled for all about:URIs (Bug number needed, or possibly new bug)

Edit menu

• Undo [action]
• Redo
• Cut
• Copy
  • Should be enabled in Flash text fields (Bug 315824 comment 6)
• Paste
  • All above Edit menu items are validated by the Undo Manager
• Delete
  • Should only be enabled for bookmark items (works)
• Select All
  • Should be disabled for binary content (bug number needed)

    I think for a11y reasons you don't want to do that; Select All does work in these cases (or at least for simple images) sardisson

• Get Info
  • Should be disabled for about:history
• Fill Form
  • Should be disabled for binary content (bug number needed)
  • Should be disabled for all about:URIs
  • Should be disabled for view-source URIs
• Find in Page
• Find Again
• Find Previous
• User Selection for Find
  • All Find options should be disabled for about:config (new bug needed)
  • All Find options should be disabled for binary content (new bug needed)
  • Use Selection for Find should be disabled when there is no selection (new bug needed)
• Special Characters…

View menu

• Show/Hide Toolbar
• Customize Toolbar
• Show/Hide Bookmark Bar
• Show History
  • Should be disabled if History is already showing
• Stop Loading Page
  • Should be disabled if no page is loading (works)
• Reload Page
  • Should be disabled when a page is in the "Looking up" stage of loading (bug number needed)
  • Should be disabled when bookmarks/history are in view (works)
  • Should be disabled when about:config is in view (new bug needed?)
• Force Reload Page (alternate)
• Reload All Tabs (alternate)
  • Should be disabled if the frontmost window is not a browser window, or when it only has one tab (will work)
• Force Reload All Tabs (alternate)

Note: All Reload options inherit validation requirements of the reload option above them

• Bigger Text
  • Should be disabled when viewing non-text content
  • Should be disabled when text is at maximum size (works)
  • Should be disabled when bookmarks manager is in view (will work)
• Smaller Text
  • Should be disabled when viewing non-text content
  • Should be disabled when text is at minimum size (works)
  • Should be disabled when bookmarks manager is in view (will work)
• View Page Source
• Text Encoding (submenu)
  • Should be disabled if at all possible when viewing non-text content

Go menu

• Home
• Search the Web
• Local Network Services (submenu)
• Back
• Forward
• Clear History

Bookmarks menu

• Add Page to Bookmarks
• Add Bookmark Folder
• Show Bookmarks

Window menu

• Minimize
• Zoom
• Previous Tab
• Next Tab
• Downloads
• Bring All to Front

Help menu

• Camino Help
• Camino Home Page
• Camino Feedback
• Installed Plug-Ins

Contextual menus to be added.