Re: Post-1.10 location entry auto-completion

[Peter Harvey <peter a harvey gmail com>]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:02 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Peter Harvey wrote:
> > ...
> > Part of the change would involve a re-write of the auto-completion 
> > code for the location entry. The location entry is one area where the
> > hierarchical bookmarks code has *not* been added and so bookmarks are
> > just lumped together in the auto-completion. I would like to try and
> > improve this for the user, so I've created two simple screenshots of 
> > how I think we could improve things for the user.
> >   http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/060219/
> >
> > Please have a look and let me know if they would improve things for 
> > you.
> > ...
> 
> I think entries in the auto-complete menu should be ordered by how 
> often they've been visited in the past. This is how at least Firefox 
> and Safari work.

I agree with this for history items. Perhaps sorting by the most
frequently visited site/domain, rather than url.

But for the bookmark items, I feel the user is trying to navigating
through an existing fixed/chosen structure. Arranging them in logical
groupings should help there more than "most recent".

More formally, I see the use case for history items is:
 - I want to go back to somewhere I've just been recently
whereas the use case for bookmarks is:
 - I want to find something in my personal collection

This is of course just my opinion based on the way I use bookmarks and
history.

Regards,
Peter.