Re: [Epiphany] Some more input about bookmarks

[Xan Lopez <xan masilla org>]

El mié, 19 de 03 de 2003 a las 18:35, Marcelo E. Magallon escribió:
> 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

Ok, I don't want to look to dumb (guess I have nothing to do with that)
but... what's exactly your complain?
I if understood correctly, your biggest issue is the fact that you can't
have bookmarks menu in a toolbar? Well, that's being worked on, more
exactly the hability to DND topics from the bookmark editor to the
toolbar, making them appear as a menu named with the name of that topic,
containing every bookmark it has.
On the other hand, you can already DND single bookmarks to the toolbar,
creating a direct access to them (that's what I do for my most visited
bookmarks).
Is that what you are asking for?
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