418224 - Add a GUI for smart bookmark's location property

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 436380

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021803 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021803 Minefield/3.0b4pre

To make users feel more comfortable while using Smart Bookmarks, I think a GUI has to be an option to the current geeky query.

I thought about a grid with two columns: Attribute and Value; and three buttons:

Add Attribute:
It would add an attribute to the query, with a given value; adding a new row to the grid.

Modify Attribute:
It would modify the value of a given attribute of the query.

Remove Attribute:
It would remove the attribute; removing the row of the grid.

That is far more intelligible to a normal user than a SQL-like query.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Damian Shaw [Quan]]

I'm sorry to say but I don't think GUI changes are likely to be made at this point. But this sounds like not too hard work for an extension, maybe you should write one or chat to an extension developer.

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm sorry to say but I don't think GUI changes are likely to be made at this
> point. But this sounds like not too hard work for an extension, maybe you
> should write one or chat to an extension developer.
> 

Actually, an extension would have much sense, because the guy who might install it, would have the sufficient knowledge to edit a query.

This isn't for me, I just found it non-usable for a kind of users, and wanted to suggest a way to improve it ;)

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

is not this a dupe of Bug 413134?

Comment 4

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #3)
> is not this a dupe of Bug 413134?
> 

I'm not sure if classify this bug as a duplicate, since bug 413134 seems much more complex (for non-power users) than this one. Maybe this should be a basic GUI, and bug 413134 be the advanced GUI (note that it is based in Bugzilla's _Advanced_ Searching Using Boolean Charts).

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

old query builder is commented out and a new one has to be created, duping to bug 436380, when new builder will be ready we will be able to take enh bugs to make it better.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv