Re: [GSoC] Bookmarks Subsystem Update

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro igalia com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 18:03 +0300, Iulian Radu wrote:
> >  Something that can
> >  be discussed is whether to keep Smart Bookmarks under any form or
> >  not,
> >  as they are not mentioned in the proposed design.
>
> Smart bookmarks are a useful feature, but as implemented they are
> extremely confusing and non-discoverable. I don't think they should be
> handled by the bookmarks system at all, but rather by the search 
> engine
> preferences. Currently we have a stupid little combo that lets you
> select Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo; we should add the ability to configure
> arbitrary search engines there, which would be available in the
> location entry dropdown just as smart bookmarks currently are. It 
> would
> be basically the same thing, but in a new home.
>
> That would be a good project to work on if you finish the rest early.


Seconded! I have and frequently use ~10 smart bookmarks.

Supporting OpenSearch description files linked using <link 
type="search"> would be one way of allowing the user to easily add 
additional search engines. See: <http://www.opensearch.org/>, 
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox>.

//Mike

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