GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 759504
Remove the bookmark manager
Last modified: 2015-12-16 14:42:47 UTC
The bookmark manager isn't great, and it would be better if it was removed. It has some surprising behaviour - it suggests that you can edit the name of XDG folders, but when you edit them a new bookmark is created. It also allows you to break your shortcuts, by changing their location to a non-existing path. Users can already accomplish the key functions of the manager through the sidebar: you can rename, remove, and reorder through drag and drop. The only thing you can't do with the sidebar is edit the path of a bookmark, but I would argue that that's problematic anyway (since you can break bookmarks that way, and it is much less error-prone to navigate to the location and bookmark it than hand edit a location field). The fact that the only way to open the bookmark manager is through a keyboard shortcut is probably a sign that it isn't really getting used anyway, and that it isn't worth the trouble of fixing it up.
Created attachment 317498 [details] [review] bookmarks: remove bookmarks manager Current bookmark manager is mostly a "show the internals in the UI", with just showing the properties in a text base way. Users can already accomplish the key functions of the manager through the sidebar: you can rename, remove, and reorder through drag and drop. The only thing you can't do with the sidebar is edit the path of a bookmark, but I would argue that that's problematic anyway (since you can break bookmarks that way, and it is much less error-prone to navigate to the location and bookmark it than hand edit a location field). The fact that the only way to open the bookmark manager is through a keyboard shortcut is probably a sign that it isn't really getting used anyway, and that it isn't worth the trouble of fixing it up. So remove it and instead, if needed, focus on improving bookmarks management in the sidebar. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759507
Let's test waters. Attachment 317498 [details] pushed as e13b3e2 - bookmarks: remove bookmarks manager
Created attachment 317501 [details] [review] remove shortcut from shortcuts window The bookmarks shortcut needs to be removed from the shortcuts window.