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AlterEgo
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:42 pm    Post subject: Bookmarking Gentoo forum topics Reply with quote

Just wondering:

If I bookmark a topic of interest in Mozilla/Phoenix, the visible title of these bookmarks always look like:
"Gentoo Forums :: View topic - OpenOf" or similar.
The bookmarks colums does not offer room for more characters. Not very informative if you happen to have a lot of them around (and are too lazy to manually change the title :wink: )

Is't it possible to make the title look something like this:
"OpenOffice and two keys accents :: Gentoo Forums", which would look like
"OpenOffice and two keys accents :: Gen" in my bookmarks.

Or should I file a feature request @ Mozilla's bugzilla for a wider bookmarks-text-field :)

Or am I just getting spoilt by all the Gentoo goodies :?:
Thanks, AE
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Bookmarking Gentoo forum topics Reply with quote

AlterEgo wrote:
If I bookmark a topic of interest in Mozilla/Phoenix, the visible title of these bookmarks always look like:
"Gentoo Forums :: View topic - OpenOf" or similar.

I don't use bookmarks much, but just to test this out, I created one for this page. In Phoenix, I hit ctrl-D, and it brought up a nice little window where I could edit the text that I wanted it to store for the bookmark name. In less than 2 seconds, I had the title edited down to something that suited my needs.

So, if I'm understanding you, you're saying the act of editing this text is too difficult? :) Or am I misunderstanding your request?

--kurt
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:02 pm    Post subject: Re: Bookmarking Gentoo forum topics Reply with quote

klieber wrote:

So, if I'm understanding you, you're saying the act of editing this text is too difficult? :) Or am I misunderstanding your request?

--kurt


AlterEgo wrote:
...and are too lazy to manually change the title :wink: ...


Exactly that, Klieber.
It's not difficult,
It's laziness. Or comfort, whichever word you prefer.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, because of your laziness, you want a developer to modify some code that isn't really fixing or improving anything.

:lol:
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, there's a fine line between laziness and bona-fide feature requests. I can certainly see things from AE's point of view.

That said, I'm not sure I want to hack on the phpbb code for a change that is largely cosmetic. It increases the difficulty of maintaining our (custom) phpbb code base going forward.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can see his point, but with almost no effort on my part (editing as you described), I have never run across a bookmark that was unuseable because of width.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It might not make for a bad feature request to the phpBB guys. I would also like to see the special searches like egosearch and unanswered have unique titles. I suppose this is the type of thing where a truly motivated individual would actually make the changes work and post it as a feature request/solution combination.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't care much about bookmarks, but I often have more than ten tabs in Phoenix open on threads in the forums. If the first word of the page title wasn't Gentoo, but rather the first word of the thread's title, I might stand a chance not to get lost in my own tabs all the time... :D
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bandwidth is expensive here.
so I use mozilla to save the whole page, rename it following my standard, for off-line viewing.

Disadvantage : I need to resave it if somebody add something
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