GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323903
Location autocomplete should put history items most recent at top
Last modified: 2012-08-01 17:49:17 UTC
The location bar autocomplete puts oldest history items at the top and most recent history items at the bottom. This is contrary to how it is used, as people are more likely to want to revisit a recently viewed page than one viewed some time ago.
Ed: Peter Harvey recently posted to the epiphany-list about possible improvements to the sorting algorithm in the autocompletion dropdown, you may want to share your thoughts: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2006-February/msg00064.html
I agree, it's rather uncomfortable to have to scroll down to get items. I think it would be nice to have them sorted like this: --- goo --- |Recently Typed |http://www.google.com/ |http://www.google.com/reader |http://video.google.com/ --- |Recently Visited |http://www.google.de/search?q=gq+ldap&hl=de&lr=&start=10&sa=N |... ---
Created attachment 209227 [details] [review] ephy-completion-model: use history service sorting Instead of our custom relevance sort function. This means we need to stop filtering the results. Due to our use of prepend, we need to reverse the list to get the real ordering.
I left the old sorting code commented, as a reminder that we might want a smarter sort one day. Although this one works fine, IMHO.
Comment on attachment 209227 [details] [review] ephy-completion-model: use history service sorting We just agreed @ GUADEC that we want to do frecency here. Hopefully we'll do it for 3.6.
Closing.