Re: [Epiphany] re-arrange bookmarks

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 18:10, Alan wrote:
> Hey guys.  I just decided to use epi at work here, and installed it
> (1.0, they are a couple of versions behind) through the unstable 
> branch of ximian desktop 2.
> 
> The thing I have noticed is that because of the way that bookmarks are
> set up I am unable to have them arranged as I like.  I imported my
> bookmarks in from my galeon install created the bookmark bar, and went
> through my bookmarks and took folders that were in my galeon bookmarks
> bar and clicked "show in bookmark bar" for them (nifty feature by the
> way).  All is good except all my bookmarks are in the wrong order!
> Muscle memory teaches us where things are found and I know that (for
> example) that my slashdot link is the top link in my "daily" folder on
> the bookmark bar.  
> 
> Now it's 11th (or third from last).
> 
> I would accept that "hey, suck it up and just learn the new order",
> except that if I add arstechnica.com to my daily folder suddenly it's
> 12th.  If I add vancouver.canada.com it's suddenly 4th from last.  
> 
> Is there any way to set an order, or lock the order of bookmarks?  I
> suspect that because of the database nature of the bookmarks in their
> current state the answer is no, but I have my fingers crossed. 

There is nothing preventing this to be implemented in the code ...
I have the impression in some folders it's useful to have auto order, in
others manual make sense (daily used for example). Anyway I think it's
something should be thought a bit before rushing an implementation.

(Dave ?)

Marco