Closed Bug 285447 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

When you type cmd-Y, the Today outline item should be pre-expanded by default

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Camino0.9

People

(Reporter: Dave, Assigned: sfraser_bugs)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050304 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050304 Camino/0.8+

When you type cmd-Y, the Today outline item should be pre-expanded by default

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type cmd-Y

Actual Results:  
History page appears, with Today item unexpanded.

Expected Results:  
Today item should be expanded
i think this is worthwhile and easy.
Assignee: pinkerton → sfraser_bugs
Target Milestone: --- → Camino0.9
Yeah, I intend to save the history outliner state.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → ASSIGNED
Ever confirmed: true
even if we save the open folders, we should always open today if nothing is
expanded, no? or at least if we have nothing saved, we should start by opening
today as the default.
the more i think about it, the more i think it's just so easy to get totally
overwhelmed with sites in this view that it's totally useless. persisting
anything open is probably the wrong thing. you just spend all your time closing
stuff when you go back the next time.
I'm kind-of with Mike in comment 4; by the end of the day, I often have 11
screens worth of items in my "Today" folder.  

OTOH, I do think that "Today" should be *pre-selected*; a lot of the time I open
history and some random day is selected, or nothing is selected at all. 
Pre-selecting "Today" seems like a good compromise between the current, random
behavior and the potential for being overwhelmed by what you've visited already
today....
The suggestion is not about persisting expansion.  The suggestion is to always
start with Today open and everything else closed.  The rationale is that 95% of
the time I want to go back to some page I was just at and have to open Today.

Actually, I usually find the bucketing into days a nuisance.  I think I would
prefer a flat table with column heads (time, name, URL, annotation) that can be
clicked on to (stably) sort by that column.  Of course, this would make sense
only if the first pagefull could be displayed quickly.  It would not do to have
to wait for the first page until the whole history has been processed.  And then
you'll want cmd-F to give you a query dialog that lets you say whether you're
searching in the name or in the URL

And 6 days is not enough.  (There have been several attempts at products that
let you search through what you've seen recently.  This is a cool feature, but
it's not yet been a success partly, I think, because it has always been an
add-on that is not too well integrated.)
(In reply to comment #6)
> Of course, this would make sense
> only if the first pagefull could be displayed quickly.  It would not do to have
> to wait for the first page until the whole history has been processed.  And then
> you'll want cmd-F to give you a query dialog that lets you say whether you're
> searching in the name or in the URL

The display of the History is already pretty fast in the nightlies. There's also
a search field that lets you choose whether to search by title or location (or
both) and does live filtering. (Sorting by column header works too, though it
happens separately within each day.)
(In reply to comment #6)
> The suggestion is not about persisting expansion. 

No, but Simon's response about implementation (comment 2) was.
it appears that we remember the state now.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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