365428 - Rename "Keyword" field as "Shortcut" to more accurately reflect its function

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

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

While thinking about the problem of making bookmark keywords/bookmark keyword searches more accessible, it occurred to me that "Keyword" is really ill-named.

A keyword (to me, at least) is a generic, non-specific/non-unique bit of metadata to aid in finding an item (book, website), e.g. for a book/site "The Unauthorized History of Apple Computer" keywords might be "unauthorized, history, apple, computer, macintosh, lisa, jobs, woz" and so forth.  Other books/sites on Apple might contain some of the same keywords.  (In other words, keywords are basically what the Web 2.0 jargon calls "tags".  iPhoto actually calls them keywords :) )

Our bookmark keywords, while perhaps originally designed as an aid to finding a bookmark in the pre-bookmarks-search days of Netscape 1.x-4.x, really meet very few of those criteria.  For one thing, they're uniquely tied to a single bookmark, and each bookmark can have only one keyword.  The primary purpose of keywords also isn't to help find a bookmark among all the others (searching the Manager) but instead to be a shortcut to load the site/search more quickly.  

(Our mis-use of keyword also seems a particularly jargon-y usage, and at least one bug - bug 338544 - seems to have been filed due to this confusion.  "Shortcut" is still a little jargon-y, but it is more likely to be understood in this context.  This renaming, especially if done in the 1.x era, would also free up "keyword" to be used instead of the jargon "tag" in the 2.0 bookmark rewrite.)

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Another possibility would be using "abbreviation."  Either is better than "keyword" IMO (for pretty much the reasons you lay out)

Comment 2

[Stuart Morgan]

I'm on board with "shortcut".

Comment 3

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Confirming, per above discussion and IRC.  Should just be the two nib changes (for the bookmark panal and bm manager)

Comment 4

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

sounds good to me too.

Comment 5

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Attachment: New BookmarkInfoPanel.nib

Comment 6

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Attachment: New BookmarksEditing.nib

Comment 7

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

Comment on attachment 250609 [details]
New BookmarksEditing.nib

You missed the menu for the search field in this nib.

Comment 8

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

Comment on attachment 250608 [details]
New BookmarkInfoPanel.nib

r=ardissone on this one

Comment 9

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Attachment: New BookmarksEditing.nib

Whoops.

Comment 10

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

Comment on attachment 250793 [details]
New BookmarksEditing.nib

r=ardissone

Just remind me to update the list of docs that need updating when this lands ;)

Comment 11

[Stuart Morgan]

Comment on attachment 250608 [details]
New BookmarkInfoPanel.nib

sr=smorgan. Please file a follow-up bug to change all code references to 'keyword' though, to make things less confusing.

Comment 12

[Stuart Morgan]

Comment on attachment 250793 [details]
New BookmarksEditing.nib

sr=smorgan

Comment 13

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

I filed bug 366976 for comment 11.

Comment 14

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Checked in on trunk and MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH