Re: Browser Bookmarks Menu (Gnome Applet) 0.2

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:

> I'm not so into that idea.  If people want the bookmarks from previously
> used browsers then they can and should migrate them.  I think you would

This doesn't fly when people use multiple browsers alongside (but true, 
this isn't a very common scenario). Regardless of that, having to 
manually migrate bookmarks is placing a unnecessary burden on the user. 
Why not let the computer do the sensible thing and have it Just Work?

> the 80% of of them who have old browser bookmarks laying around that
> they don't care about.

Are you sure about that?

> Besides, don't you think it would be annoying to discover that running
> Mozilla once would cause the default Mozilla bookmarks to show up in the
> applet?

I do think that would be annoying, but those are details that can be 
worked around.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen

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