Re: Proposal to revamp bookmarks++

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Adam,

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Adam Hooper wrote:

> > I'm going to vote to retain the word "Bookmark" for the act/object which
> > creates/stores a specific URL at user request for later retrieval.
>
> Ah, in that case I think the term "Favorites" would be better.

I'm going to have to object to that. First of all, the name 
'Favo(u)rites' can be factually incorrect, because you are likely to 
bookmark pages which aren't your favourite at all, but that you still 
need to remember for some reason.

Your assertion that translators wouldn't have to change anything doesn't 
hold water because the tiniest change in a string causes it to be marked 
Fuzzy. The translator will have to look at it or the string will be 
untranslated in the next release.

Lastly, we don't want to look like we're imitating Flock :-)

> Speaking pragmatically, the mind-share covered by the term "bookmark" is
> probably 5-10% of people browsing the web.

That must be an underestimation. Netscape has used it since the dawn of 
time. Firefox has just reached the 10% mark and uses it. Safari uses it, 
Opera uses it. If we're going to ditch Bookmarks, we'd better come up 
with some radical new concept with a corresponding radical new name.

regards,

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