GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 647406
no bookmarks toolbar
Last modified: 2011-04-17 23:05:12 UTC
I'm using Epiphany 3.0.0 on Fedora 15 alpha. On my machine, the bookmarks toolbar is simply absent. In the Bookmarks menu, there is a Bookmarks Toolbar submenu which contains a bunch of links, but there is no toolbar displaying them. In the View menu, I don't see any way to show or hide the bookmarks toolbar. I know that on another machine I did see the bookmarks toolbar in Epiphany recently, so it must be broken either with this particular release (3.0.0) or with my particular installation for some reason.
*** Bug 647407 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There really should be an item in View->Toolbars that says "Show 'Foo, bar, baz...'" with foo, etc being your bookmarks. If there isn't it means you have no bookmarks tagged as being present in the bookmarks bar, so you just need to add some (by, say, right click 'Show on toolbar' in the editor).
Hm. On my work machine this works just fine, and I see the "Show 'Foo, bar'" menu item. But on my machine at home View->Toolbars doesn't show anything like that. So apparently this is occurring only on that one machine. I'll try to debug more and see what's going on there.
(In reply to comment #3) > Hm. On my work machine this works just fine, and I see the "Show 'Foo, bar'" > menu item. But on my machine at home View->Toolbars doesn't show anything like > that. So apparently this is occurring only on that one machine. I'll try to > debug more and see what's going on there. Epiphany doesn't have a bookmarks toolbar. The reason that you're seeing a ‘Bookmarks toolbar’ topic is probably because you've imported bookmarks from Firefox or it could be a Fedora default. You can simply add a generic toolbar which will happily hold your bookmarks, topics, etc. As far as I can see this is NOTABUG.
(In reply to comment #4) > > Epiphany doesn't have a bookmarks toolbar. The reason that you're seeing a > ‘Bookmarks toolbar’ topic is probably because you've imported bookmarks from > Firefox or it could be a Fedora default. > You can simply add a generic toolbar which will happily hold your bookmarks, > topics, etc. Ah, I see. Thanks - this is helpful. I investigated. It turns out that Fedora patches Epiphany to read the default set of bookmarks from /usr/share/bookmarks/default-bookmarks.html (instead of DATADIR "/default-bookmarks.rdf"). And default-bookmarks.html in turn contains an item "Bookmarks Toolbar". So that's where this comes from. This is a Fedora packaging bug, not an Epiphany bug.
I've filed a Fedora bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697344