now it is possible to either force the buttons on by including placeholders in options.buttons or via specific options... sitll seems too complicated.

Signed-off-by: Alex A. Naanou <alex.nanou@gmail.com>

ui (gen4)/features/history.js

@@ -734,11 +734,12 @@ var URLHistoryUIActions = actions.Actions({
 
 						to_remove: to_remove,
 
-						// XXX should the normal items have a "to top" button???
 						buttons: [
 							// open...
 							['<span class="show-on-hover">&#8599;</span>', 
 								function(p){ dialog.browsePath(p) }],
+							// XXX should the normal items have a "to top" button???
+							'TO_TOP',
 							'PIN',
 							'REMOVE',
 						],

ui (gen4)/features/ui-widgets.js

@@ -1684,6 +1684,11 @@ var WidgetTestActions = actions.Actions({
 				make.EditableList(letters, { 
 					list_id: 'letters', 
 					sortable: 'y',
+
+					buttons: [
+						'TO_TOP',
+						'UP',
+					],
 				})
 
 				// NOTE: the dialog's .parent is not yet set at this point...
@@ -1721,6 +1726,11 @@ var WidgetTestActions = actions.Actions({
 				make.EditablePinnedList(letters, pins, { 
 					list_id: 'letters',
 					//pins_sortable: false,
+					/*buttons: [
+						'PIN',
+						'REMOVE',
+					],
+					//*/
 				})
 
 				// NOTE: the dialog's .parent is not yet set at this point...

ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse.js

@@ -720,36 +720,52 @@ function(list, options){
 		}
 
 		// up/down...
-		options.item_order_buttons
+		if(options.item_order_buttons 
-			&& (_buttons['UP'] = [options.shift_up_button || '⏶',
+				|| buttons.indexOf('UP') >= 0){
+			_buttons['UP'] = [
+				options.shift_up_button || '⏶',
 				function(p, e){
 					move(p, -1)
-						&& e.prev().before(e) }])
+						&& e.prev().before(e) }
-			&& (_buttons['DOWN'] = [options.shift_down_button || '⏷',
+			]
+		}
+		if(options.item_order_buttons 
+				|| buttons.indexOf('DOWN') >= 0){
+			_buttons['DOWN'] = [
+				options.shift_down_button || '⏷',
 				function(p, e){
 					move(p, 1)
-						&& e.next().after(e) }])
+						&& e.next().after(e) }
+			]
+		}
 
 		// top...
-		options.to_top_button
+		var i = buttons.indexOf('TO_TOP')
-			&& (_buttons['TO_TOP'] = [options.to_top_button === true ?
+		if(options.to_top_button || i >= 0){
+			_buttons['TO_TOP'] = [
+				(options.to_top_button === true || i >= 0) ?
 					'⤒'
 					: options.to_top_button,
 				function(p, e){
 					var d = move(p, -dialog.__list[id].length)
 					d && e.prevAll().eq(Math.abs(d+1)).before(e)
-				}])
+				}
+			]
+		}
 
 		// bottom...
-		options.to_bottom_button
+		var i = buttons.indexOf('TO_BOTTOM')
-			&& (_buttons['TO_BOTTOM'] = [options.to_bottom_button === true ? 
+		if(options.to_bottom_button || i >= 0){
+			_buttons['TO_BOTTOM'] = [
+				(options.to_bottom_button === true || i >= 0) ? 
 					'⤓' 
 					: options.to_bottom_button,
 				function(p, e){
 					var d = move(p, dialog.__list[id].length)
 					d && e.nextAll().eq(Math.abs(d)).before(e)
-				}])
+				}
-
+			]
+		}
 	}
 
 	// 'x' button if not disabled...
@@ -769,8 +785,8 @@ function(list, options){
 			: buttons.splice(i, 1, _buttons[key])
 	})
 	// clear out the unused button placeholders...
-	buttons = buttons
+	buttons = options.buttons = 
-		.filter(function(b){ 
+		buttons.filter(function(b){ 
 			return ['UP', 'DOWN', 'TO_TOP', 'TO_BOTTOM', 'REMOVE'].indexOf(b) < 0 })
 
 	// if we are sortable then we will need to also be grouped...