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Bug 353911 - opening properties dialog in bookmarks editor should be easier
opening properties dialog in bookmarks editor should be easier
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Bookmarks
2.15.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 755378
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-01 21:27 UTC by Antoine Pitrou
Modified: 2016-09-28 16:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Antoine Pitrou 2006-09-01 21:27:10 UTC 
The purpose of the bookmarks editor is to edit bookmarks. Thus I often find myself wanting to double click on a bookmark in order to edit its properties. Unfortunately doing so actually opens the bookmark in a navigator window.

To edit a bookmark, you have to right-click and choose "properties" at the bottom of the context menu, which is a bit disturbing for such a common action. There is also the keyboard shortcut (Alt+Enter) which is quite painful on French keyboards (because you can only use the left Alt key, the right one being a special modifier).

All in all, there should be a very easy way to open the bookmark properties dialog from the bookmarks editor (double-clicking preferably, or a toolbar icon... (wait, there is no toolbar)); it would make mass bookmark editing less dreadful.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-09-03 12:10:20 UTC 
I agree that the bookmark properties window is a bit hard to get to.

How about getting rid of the Address column and instead have a (simplified) properties pane on the bottom 1/3 of the bookmarks editor, that can be shown/hidden using an expander or a divider?

Maybe this will become irrlevant if we ever get the long-awaited bookmarks/history redesign...
Comment 2 Antoine Pitrou 2008-08-15 10:50:46 UTC 
I'm not sure someone still cares about Epiphany usability bugs? I just wanted to say that, after years of sticking with Galeon (which was becoming more and more painful), I finally made the hard choice to switch to Firefox 3. Epiphany's inferior URL completion and awful bookmarks management just don't cut it :-(
(although I was pleasantly surprised by Epiphany's speed and snappiness)
Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2008-08-16 22:20:16 UTC 
I'm not sure what you mean by 'inferior URL completion' but you may want to check out the 2.24 branch, which has received a couple of improvements to the autocompletion matching algorithm in the last few days. 

The fact that a bug is open for a long time does not mean nobody cares about it, but as with most Free software projects, Epiphany is driven by a small group of volunteers who have to set their priorities.