160625 - (bookmark_menuitems) Merge three bookmark menu items

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 158543

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

We have three items at the top of the Bookmark menu that all do pretty much the
same thing. IE gets by with one. I think we can too. And be a lot more
consistent and easier to use to boot.

We should remove 'Bookmark This Page'. Why is a non-interactive command needed?
File bookmark just requires 'enter' to be hit, if you want the default title and
default location. I occasionally hit ^D accidentally, and end up with unneeded
bookmarks that I don't realize until much later since there's no feedback at all.

We should also remove 'Bookmark This Group of Tabs'. Aside from having silly
capitalization, it's completely unnecessary. It's the exact same thing as 'File
Bookmark', except the box (that you'd see anyway, if you went to try and
bookmark each page individually) is checked. The proper way to do this is make
sure the option is prominent enough in the 'File Bookmark' dialog. (Which should
be much larger, by the way. See IEs (Miles from perfect, but light-years closer
then ours).

Filing this under UI Design for consideration by owners there.

Comment 1

[Christian Reis]

Bookmark group of tabs *could* be offered as a context menu item for the tabs.
Apart from that, I definitely agree the menu should contain only these two
elements, as below:
 ___________
| Bookmarks |______________
| File Bookmark...     C-D |
| Manage Bookmarks...  C-B |
|--------------------------|
| warez.com: 0-day stuff   |
| [...]                    |
|__________________________|

(The shortcut for File Bookmark and Manage Bookmarks could be changed to Ctrl-B
and Ctrl-Shift-B in the process, I suggest)

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

this looks like a dupe of bug 158543 (or maybe 156121)

Comment 3

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Agreed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158543 ***

Comment 4

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Bah, I liked my version better! :)

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