Re: Proposal to revamp bookmarks++

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Peter,

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Peter Harvey wrote:

> IDEA 1: Replace "Smart Bookmark" with "Search"
> ----------------------------------------------

> *knows* that they bookmarked Google as a "Smart Bookmark", and not as a
> regular bookmark, right? So what happens when they select "Google" on
> the white background, rather than on the grey background? The user
> should be made aware that there really is a Google bookmark which isn't
> smart. It should be explicit in the bookmark editor, as distinct from
> the Search.

Part of this problem is covered in 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313792. Smart bookmarks 
activated from the "white background" dropdown shouldn't load 
http://blah.tld/query=%s but should either activate the base URL or not 
be listed there at all.

> Addendum 3: "History" in bme, renamed to "Link Editor" or "View Links" ?

If I understand correctly, you are suggesting to converge the History 
and Bookmark editors? This idea is discussed under 
http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany_2fBookmarksHistoryIntegration

Long story short, I support this idea (in essence, bookmarks are just 
persistent history items) but the design should allow for future 
improvements like web thumbnails and maybe even a continuous slider 
widget that would allow for fine-grained history selection (use case: 
last friday around lunchtime, Bob remembers visiting this interesting 
website. But to find it back in the History window on monday, Bob 
currently has to browse through all entries of the 'Last 10 days'. Now 
imagine having a logarithmic scale timeline slider and yanking it to 
somewhere in between friday and saturday. Suddenly the browseable list 
is reduced to the entries of ~12 hours).

> many. Also can hook up "View/History" to just open this same window 
> with the "History" button set.

+1

> IDEA 2: Merge the "Add Bookmark" window with "Bookmark Properties"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------

> I get the same thing when working online. I find some reference
> documentation, I find the single page that I want *right now*, then
> decide I want to bookmark the whole site. Just "Add Bookmark" and
> shorten the URL.

I can't think of any objections to this :)

> Drop down list contains:
> - Show suggested topics
> - Show top-level topics
> - Show all topics
> - Show deli.cio.us topics

I'd rename the last item to 'community' topics as we may want to support 
other services similar to delicious. Otherwise I'm looking forward to 
trying out this new model.

regards,

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