287406 - Implement ability to create "Smart Folders" in bookmark manager

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Winopal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321 Camino/0.8+

Since Camino already records things like the last visit of a bookmarks and even
the number of visits, it would be nice to have the ability to create "Smart
Folders" for rule-based sorting of the links in your bookmarks pane.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create loads of bookmarks
2. Try to find anything or to sort them by hand
3. Lose

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This isn't ever going to work on 10.2, so targeting for 10.3.

At some point (ideally soon after 1.1 ships), we should start thinking about UI for this.

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Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

iCab has halfway decent UI for this (shockingly, since most of the rest of iCab's UI is somewhere between terrible and atrocious). iTunes is a decent model, too.

I believe iCab is the only other browser that supports this sort of feature at the moment, although I haven't used OmniWeb or Opera in ages.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Oh, and obviously we're going to have to do some renaming in code; we currently call our Bonjour, Top Ten, and Address Book collections "smartFolders". I think it probably makes sense to s/smart/special, since those collections are really "special" rather than "smart".

Comment 4

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

(In reply to Chris Lawson from comment #2)
> I believe iCab is the only other browser that supports this sort of feature
> at the moment, although I haven't used OmniWeb or Opera in ages.

Firefox has a few built-in smart folders (Recent Bookmarks, Recently Visited, and Recent Tags), even reusing the standard smart folder icon, but no facility, apparently, for making custom, user-specified ones.