GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124408
Restore "Dont clear smartbook" preference
Last modified: 2014-08-26 19:52:27 UTC
Earlier versions of Galeon had two global config options which appear to have been removed from Galeon 1.3.9. These are the configuration options for smart bookmarks which allow retention and reuse of smart bookmark history and the option of clearing (or not!) the smart bookmark text data after each use. I work with both of these unchecked, by _definite_ intent. I use this frequently, for instance, if I'm researching something on Google and am using a search expression with more than a couple of words. I can be several links away from my search results, decide I need to tweak my search, and go back to the smart bookmark and make the change quickly without going back through my page history. As it is now in Galeon 1.3.9, we have neither the option of keeping the contents of smart bookmark entry fields across use cycles, nor the option of maintaining a drop-down history for them. Please, please, restore at least the ability to have a smart bookmark history, and preferably both of these features! These are the kinds of features which make Galeon such an easy, powerful and useful tool for those of us who do serious Internet research. I don't know why these were dropped.
The history is in galeon 1.3, you just need to turn it on again (it is on by default). gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/galeon/Browsing/Bookmarks/smart_bm_history 1
OK, Crispin, I can get at this switch with the GUI gconf editor, too, although this really ought to be settable via an option in the galeon UI. Again, the fact that the switch is off may be due to the fact that I had galeon 1.2 installed on the same box previously and didn't have the history drop-down enabled since I depended on the field not being cleared. I note that the gconf registry also contains a smart_bm_clear boolean which, unlike the switch to enable the drop-down on the history list, doesn't seem to work. Is this also a relic from the previous installation? Would it be too much to ask the developers to reinstate function for this switch?
The option for the history disabling the history won't get into the UI, as there is no obvious place for it, and we are trying to keep user-visible changes to a minimum. Changing to enhancement, and re-titling.
Lindsay isn't the only one who thinks the clearing of the smart bookmarks is bad. It's so much easier to clear an old query and start fresh than it is to retype in a slight variation of an old query, which I do most of the time.
I fully agree with Lindsay and Bill that this should be easily configurable via a gui setting. I agree that there is no obvious place for it. It could be in general settings, but then this dialog would probably fast be crowded with many different things. How about introducing a misc or a advanced options dialog?
Galeon has not seen any code changes since May 2010: https://git.gnome.org/browse/archive/galeon/log This project is not under active development anymore and got recently archived in GNOME Git. It is currently unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. If you are interested in maintainership, inform https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list