Re: Small patches

[Joachim König-Baltes <joachim koenig-baltes emesgarten de>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2005, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:

> Hmm, we must be careful with messing around with these "forced"
> hierarchies, people who depend on them might not like it very much if
> we just go and change their existing bookmark structure for them. If
> you can do it in a way that more-or-less preserves that existing
> structure, only then I'd say go ahead.

> Maybe it would be nice to have an 'Automatic recategorize bookmarks'
> function that would replace the "->" topics, find likely duplicates in
> different topics and propose to replace them with one bookmark under
> multiple topics, match existing bookmarks against topics that would
> have been suggested if the bookmark would be added right now, etc. The
> function would propose a list of changes at completion which the user
> could individually agree with or cancel.
>
> Just thinking aloud here...

The hierarchies could be kept if we allowed topics to be attached to
topics, e.g. marking the 'Linux' topic with 'Unix' and the 'Unix'
topic with 'OS'. Then a path could simply be mappend to a sequence of 
topics that are each mapped to the next higher topic.

We could then either map a bookmark to each topic or even better map
it only to the last element aka topic in the path. But then the 
searching would have to be rewritten to take the topic hierarchy into 
account, e.g. I would expect to find my Linux bookmarks when I type OS 
in the location bar.

Joachim