GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 115280
Web bookmark option in menu bar
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:15:50 UTC
I wish that in the menubar there would be a new nautilus bookmarks menu. Either that, or in a submenu inside Actions or Applications (though actions would be better, since the recent programs is there, and launching a bookmark is an action or task). The reason is for easy acess to them, and also because nautilus is a part of gnome, and this feature should be available to users even with no nautilus window. Preferably there would also be a web bookmarks menu, ans since there is no one bookmark menu in gnome, instead there would be Epiphany bookmarks, Galeon bookmarks, etc. This is not as bad as it seems, because a usually a user will only use a browser inside gnome, and having extra bookmarks for other browser installed could persuade him on uninstalling them and stick to just one. Also, for users of both gnome and kde, they could acess both bookmarks as easily, until, hopefully, a common bookmark menu is used by both kde and gnome.
FWIW, I think having a gnome-wide-bookmarks implementation is great. The problem is what to base it on. I of course would favor a database like approach similar to epiphany's, but i'm biased too :)
We now have the GTK+ bookmarks in a Places menu. I'm not sure about web bookmarks. The problems with web bookmarks is that people usually have a lot of web bookmarks... cc'ing usability people.
I'd rather have an applet that is essentially a new menu item: [Web] Bookmarks -> <insert Epiphany bookmark categories> <bookmarks> <not categorized bookmarks> And then perhaps it could be included in the Top Panel "by default" if Epiphany is the default browser. Of course, the panel could later be expanded to support Firefox, Galeon, etc. Perhaps such a panel even exists already ? If so, please tell me, because I'd love to have one ;) If it were to be included in the Places-menu, it would have too many sublevels to be sensible, and moving the level up (eg, having the E-categories in the top menu) would crowd the menu alot.
Epiphany-extensions contains a tray applet for bookmarks. Furthermore if you search the archives of epiphany-list you will find a python panel applet which does roughly the same for mozilla/firefox/epiphany bookmarks.
I think our current approach (browser/file-manager bookmarks separated) works great. I see no reason to change it.
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