GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 106247
bookmark keyword case
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The bookmark keywords should be case insensitive - i.e., if I have a keyword News, news and NEWS and NeWs should all work as well. Maybe if you type it in a different case, it'll auto-fixify it to the "correct" case (that being whatever you specified originally).
I think we should do the mac trick of case preserving, but also case insensitive.
Could you elaborate on the mac trick ;) Not sure what you mean
I think the "mac trick" simply means that you should remember how the user typed it, but not care about the case when searching or matching to an item. Ie, do case-insensitive searches to keywords and bookmark titles. The argument being that it is very difficult to convey case in spoken language, and bookmark names should be possible to be spoken. "mac trick" comes from that being the way a Mac HFS filesystem works (as opposed to MS-DOS, which didn't preserve case at all, and Unix (and, indeed some Mac OS X installations using a filesystem other than HFS+), which forces the user to refer to files with exact case).
This bug is invalid with the new bookmark topic ui. There is another bug about not letting users create identical topic names using new topic and another bug that deals with topics and the address entry.
I'm not sure this is invalid. Say I have a bookmark with title Slashdot.org, in whatever topics (lets say News). I think I should be able to get to that bookmark by typing "slash" or "news" in the location bar, but I don't (with 0.6.0 at least, haven't rebuilt in a couple of days though). I have to type News or Slash to get the bookmark to show up. I'm not reopening yet, but please consider this point. I was going to mark this as dependence to 112094 because I think this is a fairly important usability issue.
Oh i agree but thats bug 109342. In the old ui, you had to type a topic name in an entry box for each bm, so the topic NEw and the topic new, would be different topics, the new ui doesn't have this problem