On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 10:43 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > A little while ago I sat down to go through the default bookmarks that > we include in Firefox. The following attached proposal is where I've > got based on a first pass (and some review from a few people I passed > it on to). The aim is to provide a set of useful bookmarks, but > certainly far from a complete list.
I'm not sure how you intended the toolbar entries to be laid out, but personally I wouldn't want five separate vendor-related bookmarks on my toolbar. I'd just delete them all right away to make room for my own. I'd be more inclined to keep them around if you put them all in a single "OpenSolaris" bookmark folder on the toolbar, because that wouldn't get in the way of my own stuff so much. As for all those entries on the Bookmarks menu... it would be interesting to find out how many people actually *use* their bookmarks menu these days. I can't remember the last time I looked at mine, so all those links would be completely lost on me. I know FF will auto-complete on bookmark entries, so if I type "OpenSolaris" into the location bar they'll all show up in the dropdown. But only the first six matches show up without scrolling, so I'd probably still miss most of them. (And chances are, if I type anything in the location bar it's to visit a page I already know about, so I'm very unlikely to divert onto one of the bookmarked pages on a whim at that point anyway.) My hunch is--if a bookmark isn't on the toolbar, most people will never see it. > One idea that has been suggested is adding in a feed of packages that > have been updated in pkg.opensolaris.org - from a user experience > point of view, I'm a little unclear at how well this would work (and > it's closely connected with the update notification work that's going > on). I would appreciate feedback on how people think this should look. Personally, if I couldn't click on an item in the feed to install the package, it would be of little use to me. I'd rather rely on the update notification stuff for that, assuming that would at least let me click on something to directly open the IPS GUI with all newly-available packages immediately on show. (What *would* be cool is if I could filter the update notifications on packages or tags of particular interest, though....) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
