Re: Patch for bookmark properties (t6)

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On 26 Jan, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Peter Harvey wrote:
> ...
>   http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/t6.png
>
> I also need feedback from people on the topic list combobox. Should we
> remove it? Do people still want the flat list? Is anyone having 
> trouble with having topics arranged by Selection/Subtopics/Others?
> ...

I've had a lot of trouble understanding the topics selector in the 
various mockups. I think it's quite a bit more complicated than the 
bookmark properties windows in other browsers, when the original idea 
of topics in Epiphany was supposedly making bookmark management 
simpler.

I think topics could be renamed to keywords, and entered in a single 
text field with an autocomplete menu.
 ______________________________________________________
|(x) ::::::::::: “Slashdot” Properties :::::::::::: (-)|
|            ________________________________________  |
|     Name: [Slashdot________________________________] |
|            ________________________________________  |
|  Address: [http://slashdo|_________________________] |
|            _________________________________  __  _  |
| Keywords: [_________________________________][+v][-] |
|______________________________________________________|

A full menu of keywords would be available from the "+" menubutton next 
to the field.
 ______________________________________________________
|(x) ::::::::::: “Slashdot” Properties :::::::::::: (-)|
|            ________________________________________  |
|     Name: [Slashdot________________________________] |
|            ________________________________________  |
|  Address: [http://slashdot.org/____________________] |
|            _________________________________  __  _  |
| Keywords: [(geek)(news)(tech)_______________][+v][-] |
|___________| architecture                    1 |A|____|
            | beer                            4 |:|
            | cricket                         4 |:|
            | geek                           13 |:|
            | golf                            7 |:|
            |_golfing_________________________1_|V|

And once del.icio.us suggestions were implemented, they could be 
presented as two buttons that would operate on the contents of the 
Keywords field.
 ______________________________________________________
|(x) ::::::::::: “Slashdot” Properties :::::::::::: (-)|
|            ________________________________________  |
|     Name: [Slashdot________________________________] |
|            ________________________________________  |
|  Address: [http://slashdot.org/____________________] |
|            _________________________________  __  _  |
| Keywords: [_________________________________][+v][-] |
|           ( Get Suggestions ) ( Submit Suggestions ) |
|______________________________________________________|

I think that would be the kind of simplicity that people like Epiphany 
for.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/