Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks

[Igor Lev <hyperf earthlink net>]

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From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco@gnome.org>
Sent: Oct 24, 2003 12:22 AM
To: "Jon A. Solworth" <solworth@parsys.cs.uic.edu>
Cc: epiphany@mozdev.org
Subject: Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks

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>2 I fail to see why hierarchy itself should be important. What's
>important for an user is to be able to store and retrieve his bookmarks,
>in the more efficient way. It's possible that hierarchy is the best way,
>but that needs to be proved.
>A good try at proving why hierarchy isnt the best way is here:
>http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/associative-interfaces.pdf
>Mostly to show a good, rational method of dealing with usability issues.

I think one reason most people think they like the hierarchical menus is because it works well with "muscle memory". ie if I use a bookmark often enough my hand automatically remembers the movements required to get through the submenus to the bookmark. This is possible because there is a very static bookmark location placement. IMO in 90% of the cases that bookmark will be in one place and one place only in a hierarchical system. So while I think a vfolder-like architecture (AFAIK such as Storage) is great for finding exactl what you need it does take away a visual certainty some users like as well make it much harder to just idly browse the bookmarks like I can do right now on the web in Yahoo or Google Directory or DMOZ. 

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-Igor
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