Re: [Epiphany] Bookmarks

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:27, Jon A. Solworth wrote:
> 	Bookmark management is one of the most critical issues
> for the active web user.  The following are important criteria
> for me:
> 	1. Hierarchy
> 	2. Easy to add bookmarks in the appropriate place in
> 	    the hierarchy
> 	3. Ability to reorganize, search for dead bookmarks,
> 	    export to html

Two things:

1 Unfortunately what is important for me and you is not necessarily
what is important for the majority of users. Things would be much easier
if it was but ...
2 I fail to see why hierarchy itself should be important. What's
important for an user is to be able to store and retrieve his bookmarks,
in the more efficient way. It's possible that hierarchy is the best way,
but that needs to be proved.
A good try at proving why hierarchy isnt the best way is here:
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/associative-interfaces.pdf
Mostly to show a good, rational method of dealing with usability issues.

> I think by far the best architecture would be an external
> bookmark editor with a well defined interface.  This would
> enable competing editors and to find the best way of dealing
> with this problem.

Personally I dont think the solution to an usability problem is to allow
alternatives, in most cases they end up to be equally broken, at least
in my experience. Keep to work and to think on issues often give better
results.
Anyway, we have a plugin architecture, and allowing to install a
different editor is not the most difficult/nonsense thing.

Marco