Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks window changes

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

Hrm, I'd need editing of url myself since I tend to work like this:
I visit a site, browse around a bit, and at some point I decide I want a
bookmark. So I add it, but it's a pointer to a specific page in the
site. But I sometimes want a bookmark to point to the main site, so I
edit the url. (It'd also be nice to have an url field in the 'add
bookmark' dialog.. maybe even a 'use main site' button next to it, or
something)

Cheers

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:20, bordoley@msu.edu wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti@oltrelinux.com> said:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 04:09, bordoley@msu.edu wrote:
> > > I'm concerned about a recent change to the bookmarks ui which allows a user to
> > > change the location of a bookmark. In particular, this makes accidentally
> > > changing the location of a bookmark trivially easy, with no way to undo. 
> > > Furthermore, these are bookmarks right, does it even make sense to allow the
> > > user to change the location...
> > 
> > Thanks for this mail, I was about to ask to you to do so ;)
> > The reason I did that change was mostly to not have all the uris clutter
> > the list. I think that's a good change and we should keep it. I have no
> 
> Nod...from a layout perspective i agree with you it definately makes the
> editor less cluttered looking and I support the change.
> 
> > objections making it read only myself (or a label). The reasons I had to
> > not make it editable at beginning was more or less these you are saying.
> > Someone argued it's sometimes necessary to change the url a bit, I'd
> > like to learn about these cases. (ccing the man)
> > It would be really cool if we could get a comment by some usability guru
> > about this :)
> 
> I really fail to see the benefit of changing the address of a bookmark, since
> its a pointer to a location. Admittedly, some times links go stale, but isn't
> the prefered method of fixing a dead bookmark to delete it and create a new
> one pointing at the new location? 
> 
> Regardless of whether you should be able to edit the address as a matter of
> principle, the potential for loss of data is quite high and in the absence of
> undo, i'm very uncomfortable with allowing editting of addresses in the
> bookmark editor.
> 
> dave
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