Re: [Epiphany] Re: "I feel lucky" preference on Address bar

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo debian org>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:49:39PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

 > >  What's wrong with just allowing the user to set the URL that
 > >  epiphany should use for keyword searches? (IOW, I don't understand
 > >  which aspect is the one that you want to make automagical)
 > 
 > I just think smart bookmarks, autocompletion searches and keyword
 > searches are more or less the same thing and it would be nice to
 > improve their integration.

 Quoting Shneiderman:

    /Reduce short-term memory load/.  The limitation of human
    information processing in short-term memory (the rule of thumb is
    that humans remember "seven-plus or minus-two chunks" of
    information) requires that displays be kept simple, multipage
    displays be consolidated, window-motion frequency be reduced, and
    sufficient training time be allotted for codes, mnemonics, and
    sequences of actions.

 by making keyword searches dynamically configurable, you are demanding
 the user to remember which search engine (smart bookmark, whatever) was
 the last one they used.

 As far as smart bookmarks integration goes, the obvious choice would be
 to be able to mark _one_ smart bookmark as "the" search engine, which
 would be used for keyword searches.  I don't see how autocompletion
 searches have anything to do with that, though.  These are not web
 searches but searches in the bookmarks and history lists.

 -m.