Re: [Epiphany] Some more input about bookmarks

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo debian org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 08:12:54PM +0100, Xan Lopez wrote:

 > Ok, don't know in which ground do you base your opinion, but for that
 > matter I've always ordered my bookmarks and files regarding their
 > "topic", so topic makes a lot of sense to me. Obviously, this is not
 > the point. If we want to achieve a point where people abandons
 > hierarchical modes of arrangement

 Given that the bookmark manager is the reason why I subscribed to this
 mailing list I guess I'll chime in.

 I've been using Epiphany for a couple of weeks now and for the most
 part I like it.  The sore point are the bookmarks.  I have a list of
 sites that I visit regularly and on Galeon I had this on the toolbar on
 a menu labeled "WTS" (Watch This Space).  With Epiphany I have created
 an HTML file which contains these "bookmarks".  It's not 100%
 satisfactory, but with some CSS it isn't that bad either.  The problem
 with this approach, besides having to maintain it (which is solvable),
 is that WTS was not the only menu of this kind that I had.

 From a usability point of view, having several oddly-named top-level
 menus on the toolbar is terrible.  Noone besides me can do anything
 with this configuration... but that's precisely the point: this is _my_
 configuration, _I_ am the one that's going to use it.  What I want is
 fast access to certain URLs (dictionaries, journal archives, news
 sites, Google flavours, stuff like this).  I have a large collection of
 bookmarks, categorized much like the usenet hierarchy.  I don't access
 these that frequently, but I can find stuff on this list _very_
 effectively.

 Trying to work with the Epiphany bookmark model has produced mixed
 results.  On one hand, I rely much more on autocompletion and history
 now.  For example, my fingers are already trained to the fact that
 typing "<ctrl-l> l w <down arrow> <enter>" will take me to a page I
 visit daily.  On the other hand, there are several sites that I visit
 once a day and I have all of them bookmarked and I have set a common
 "topic" for them, so typing the topic on the location bar brings a list
 of them.  This is slow and inefficient.  Openining the bookmark list is
 equally slow and inefficient, since the list of topics is long.

 Just some random thoughts,

 Marcelo