170696 - List autocomplete options sorted by path depth, then alphabetically

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Location Bar & Autocomplete, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Trindade]

When trying to autocomplete a url from a site frequently visited the index page
(ex versiontracker) doesn't appear first on the list. The list appears to be
sorted alphabetically instead of alphabetically while treating folders as
seperate words (shortest urls first).

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Jason, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?

Reassigning to URL Bar & Autocomplete.

Comment 2

[Jason Trindade]

Sorry, that build was 2002092404. Thanks

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Jason, I'm not sure I understand your original description. "The list appears to
be sorted alphabetically instead of alphabetically"? Is that really what you
meant to say?

This does appear to work for me using Chimera/2002092304. I have many entries
starting with bugzilla.mozilla.org in autocomplete, and
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/" appears first.

Comment 4

[Jason Trindade]

Greg,
Ok, so you definately can't be seeing what I'm seeing because I get what you get with 
moz and some other sites. What I meant was that sorting the list with the shortest urls as 
words instead of the whole url as one word. Did you try it with versiontracker? I think that 
particular issue has to do with the fact that you never go to a page that loads with the url 
http://www.versiontracker.com because it automatically sends you to http://
www.versiontracker.com/macosx (cookies or browser detect possibly both).  Basically I 
missed a comma in my original report ok. Anyways...Why doesn't auto complete work like 
that? You type in the start of a name and get the choice of the shortest (alphabetically 
sorted) url, then the next choices are the places where you would have followed paths, 
and if you maybe right arrow on one of those, then you get the next part so you could 
kinda smartly get to where you want in your autocomplete w/o scrolling through an 
unintuitive list. Speaking about scrolling.. is the autocomplete list still doing that in the 25 
build?? 

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Okay, I think I get it. You'd like the autocomplete options sorted by depth of
path; that is, the number of directories, or slashes. Then, alphabetically.

So, 
http://v.c/
http://v.c/bar/
http://v.c/foo/
http://v.c/bar/foo/
http://v.c/foo/bar/

Is that right?

Comment 6

[Jason Trindade]

Yeah, that's generally right
What you said:
http://v.c/
http://v.c/bar/
http://v.c/foo/
http://v.c/bar/foo/
http://v.c/foo/bar/

Would represent if you just scroll down (and is all I was asking for), but if you scroll to 
http://v.c./bar/ and hit the right arrow (or something along these lines) you would get the 
subdirectory choices (I guess that part is more a feature request) but I definately think that 
having the system go from the root is quicker. Maybe it's personal choice might need to 
be a preference, but it's pretty painfull when you have a lot of things in there. There's no 
reason not to make the open location command select all in the location toolbar and 
have a shortcut like shift+delete that take you back one / at a time (just for convenience 
sake) anyways..I guess that's asking a lot.

thanks-j

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

So, if you hit the right arrow, it displays only those that are path children of
the current selection? You should probably file a separate bug about that. This
and that needn't necessarily happen at the same time.

Confirming as an RFE.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 172990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jason Trindade]

Erm... I tried to report a seperate bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172990  
as suggested and it ended up here as a duplicate? 172990 is supposed to be about 
arrow key navigation while this bug 17696 is purely about the sorting algorythm.
-j

Comment 10

[Gabriel Radic]

As of NB 2003082902, the list of URLs is NOT sorted alphabetically, but
chronologically (I think).

I really like the idea in this RFE.

Comment 11

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This is now shown in order of visit count, from most-visited to least-visited.

As this is typically far more useful than either the behaviour proposed here or any previous behaviour we've had, I suggest this is now a WONTFIX.

cl

Comment 12

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

WONTFIX per comment 11 and discussion on irc.