Re: Proposal to revamp bookmarks++

[Peter Harvey <pah06 uow edu au>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:49 +1100, Peter Harvey wrote:
> IDEA 3: Improve the bookmark properties dialog
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> +--------------------------- _X
> |                             |
> | Title:  ___________________ |
> | URL:    ___________________ |
> | Topics: ___________________ |   <--- auto-completing text input
> |                             |
> | > Choose topics from list   |
> |                             |
> +-----------------------------+
> 
> +--------------------------- _X
> |                             |
> | Title:  ___________________ |
> | URL:    ___________________ |
> | Topics: ___________________ |
> |                             |
> | v Choose topics from list   |
> |                             |
> | ( Suggested topics        ) |   <--- drop down list
> |                             |
> |  +----------------------+   |
> |  |                      |   |   <--- list of topics
> |  |                      |   |        click a topic to add to the
> |  |                      |   |        topics text entry above
> |  |                      |   |
> |  |                      |   |
> |  |                      |   |
> |  +----------------------+   |
> |                             |
> +-----------------------------+

Just to update anyone who's interested. It's slowly coming together. You
can see a snapshot of what I have running (not mockup, this is real) at:
  http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/t1b.png

The topics palette:
 - I haven't got the drop-down list in place yet.
 - The list shows the suggested (aka top-most) topics atm.
 - I replaced the icons with text (I actually wanted buttons). This will
   allow us to have "Add" and "New" for different topics. Criticise. :)

The topics auto-complete field:
 - Allows quite free editing, not too much interference.
 - It uses semi-colon as a separator (I think this is safe).
 - It offers suggestions when you're midway through writing a topic.
 - It allows you to create a topic on the fly.
 - When you exit the widget it reads your text input and associates the 
   bookmark with those topics. Not before.
 - It auto-updates whenever a topic is associated and presents your
   topics in 'canonical' form (currently alphabetical sort, but would 
   prefer sort by size, so the largest topic appears first).

Regards,
Peter.