Re: Post-1.10 location entry auto-completion

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> >  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".

I doubt this would really help a lot. If the bookmark happens to be in a 
topic that is down below in the dropdown, even if it is used a lot, it 
will cause irritation.

> I see them both as "I want to back to somewhere I was at before". 
> Bookmarking a page is a way of saying "make sure I can always do that, 
> even if I don't visit the page again for a long time". (Which is 
> partly why I propose calling the menu "Remember".)

How do these ideas fit in with our (admittedly somewhat elusive) long 
term plan to merge bookmarks and history? I do think that treating 
bookmarks as (semi-)permanent history items, possibly with some extra 
metadata, is the way we should pursue.


regards,

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