GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124077
Add File->New Bookmark to Bookmark Editor
Last modified: 2016-09-28 16:07:16 UTC
I'd like to suggest that yall add a "New Bookmark" item in the File menu for the bookmark editor. Not exactly a critical bug though. :)
WE could add this for completeness. I'm not sure how useful it really is though. I am a little concerned about the length of the file menu though.
<marco> I think we should punt this one. - It breaks with the bookmark conceptual model. You bookmark a web site, you dont create a bookmark pointing to a web site. - It adds clutter for something most users would not use - The File menu is already quite big - I cant think to any use case that are not already covered in some other way </marco> I agree with marco and dave on this one too, so WONTFIX.
>It breaks with the bookmark conceptual model. You bookmark a web >site, you dont create a bookmark pointing to a web site. This is the only valid reason listed for not adding this feature. However, every major browser allows you to create a bookmark and it honestly confused the hell out of me when I tried to create a bookmark and couldn't find a New Bookmark menu item. I think there are people who might argue that you do create a bookmark that points to a web site. "Add Bookmark" is just a shortcut when you already have the page loaded. If you don't want to visit the website right then, you should still be able to bookmark it. > It adds clutter for something most users would not use I would disagree. Many times I know the sites I want to bookmark, and I don't want to visit all 10 sites just to make 10 bookmarks. Until you gather usage data from other browsers, this is just speculation. > The File menu is already quite big Because the File menu is filled with things that don't belong there. Delete, Rename..., and possibly even Properties are all Editing commands and thus belong in the Edit menu (See Nautilus). > I cant think to any use case that are not already covered in some other way See above.
Mass reassigning of Epiphany bugs to epiphany-maint@b.g.o
What if you want to create a smart bookmark? How do you do that without a 'new bookmark' command?
Also, what do you do if you're currently not online and want to add a bookmark? Maybe this particular case is solvable in some other way though.
*** Bug 118293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From 118293: The functionality I miss is to use the currently selected bookmark as a template for a new one. (If you want to see how this works: the OO.o style palette has a button to duplicate a selected style and open a properties window for the new style instantly.) The UI for this feature would include a item in the File menu, the context menu and possibly a toolbar button, if a toolbar would be added to the bme. This can come in handy in cases where the user wants to create several similar bookmarks for the same site. Smart bookmarks are a good example of such a case, for instance when creating smb's for a multiple language dictionary.
harves, I believe this might interest you too. We discussed a number of use cases regarding creating bookmarks of unvisited pages on irc. If you still have it somewhere it could be added to this bug.
My writeup of the use cases is currently at http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/t3.txt It's a bit big to post directly here I think.
Created attachment 56520 [details] Description of use cases Contents of file from http://home.exetel.com.au/harvey/epiphany/t3.txt Didn't even think of attaching it. I just woke up. :P
*** Bug 353906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Can I suggest this ticket be marked as bug and not enhancement? The use case in #353906 cannot be solved without such a feature. Also, a "duplicate bookmark" action would come in handy when trying to add several versions of a bookmarklet (to, say, google-translate a page in several different languages). BTW, I've tried migrating from Galeon and this problem is one of the showstoppers. I can't use Epiphany until it is possible to properly add bookmarks.
Duplicate bookmark would be enough. I have never felt the need to use a New Bookmark command in all the time I use Epiphany, for me bookmarks are memos of urls I like or found. Not like I know of them before reaching them. The spatial model makes sense to me.
However it is solved, there must be a way to manually enter or modify the URL, and also the "parametered URL" (the one with a "%s" placeholder in order to have a text box in your bookmark bar). Adding bookmark shortcuts for non-standard search engines is a serious use case.
Got a better way to add a bookmark now.