Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks window changes

["Rob Clews" <rjc intercellsolutions com>]

I also do a similar thing, how about when you add a bookmark a dialog is
shown, like the history dialog, of all the pages you visited on that
domain so you can choose a page to bookmark

Jorn Baayen said:
> 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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Rob Clews