Aplogies if this topic has already been covered. I searched the archive on 'hotlist' but did not find anything relevant. I am using r9592 on RISC OS 5.14. I note that if one selects a directory in the hotlist and then launches it then all the urls within it, and in its subdirectories recursively, are launched; each in its own window. Can this really be the intended behaviour? I have hundreds, if not thousands, of urls in the hotlist, and I cannot conceive of an occasion when I would would want to launch more than a few of them simultaneously. The effect is to cause a crash: I cannot then quit NetSurf from either the iconbar or from the TaskManager window.
In 2005 I mentioned in Archive-Online that I preferred to use the filer and files of type URL than use dedicated hotlists. I got slapped down, in a sense, because lots of people expect to use a hotlist, and because the filer, as a database, is rather restricted - it does not keep a record of usage, for example. In my case I do not need such extras. But I still think that the hotlist is a reduplication of functionality. I would like to suggest that the current behaviour of launching a directory in the hotlist be modified so as not to recurse down to subdirectories. Or, perhaps there should be a configuration option to control this? -- Gavin Wraith ([email protected]) Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/
