Re: Address bar searches (was: epiphany-list gnome org)

[Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer lunden gmail com>]

On 9/9/05, Adam Hooper <adamh densi com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:24 +0200, Kristoffer Lundén wrote:
> > The whole idea was to allow to you to type "gg address bar searches",
> > because the first word would match your keyword for "Google Groups
> > Search" bookmark. The reason that "starting with a word" is a special
> > case is simply to allow keyworded bookmarks, which is a needed darling
> > of mine. Matching titles or walking the menu to find them just simply
> > won't do.
> 
> Ah, I get it now: you want to add a "keyword" to certain bookmarks! A
> "keyword" apart from the topic, title, and url. That's definitely going
> to be relegated to an extension, it doesn't belong in Epiphany proper.
> (I had assumed you meant "title" when you said "keyword".)
>

Nope, meant what I said, "keyword" seems to be the standard word for
this, as seen in Firefox. Use it all the time and can't do without, as
it were. =)

As you noted yourself, searching in titles (and topics?) breaks down,
and I think it does so quickly at that, making any effective use of it
impossible. The other option is to name bookmarks in forced ways, and
keeping track so they don't collide (how else do you arrive at "gg"?).
Frankly, I don't see why this is prefered to one(!) extra field which
effectively solves all that confusion.

If I've misunderstood, could someone please take my hand and walk me
through how a few real world examples would work out in
Epiphany-as-planned? I don't want to argue due to confusion. =)

I have tons of these convenient shortcuts and use them frequently, I
don't think I can do without them, and I do know that people say "wow"
and start use them whenever I tell them about them in Fx. Part of what
does keywords better than "searching" is that it's so easy to commit
to muscle memory, a'la "gg", "mail", "bank", "wp". And they are always
added explicitly by the user, so there are no surprise effects.

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