Places:Fx3UIPlan

Places UI Implementation Plan for Firefox 3

Notes

View all Places UI bugs.

PRD Tracking bugs:

• bug 374522 - Starring
• bug 374524 - Tagging
• bug 374521 - Unified Organizer

Schedule

• A5 (All A5 Places Bugs)
  • bug 383803 - tagging back-end service

• A6 (All A6 Places Bugs)

• M7 (All M7 Places Bugs)

• M8 (All M8 Places Bugs)
  • bug 385266 - New starring, bookmarking and tagging UI
    • bug 387642 - A user should be able to bookmark a page in one click
    • bug 329261 - Tag selector
  • bug 395267 - Tags in location bar autocomplete
  • bug 374528 - Backup and restore bookmarks

• M9 (All M9 Places Bugs)
  • bug 387740 - Organizer toolbar/searchbar UI
  • bug 393464 - Search tags in organizer, sidebar, smart folders
  • bug 387744 - Advanced search UI improvements
  • bug 387746 - Organizer finder pane
    • view starred items ("All bookmarks")
    • view tag folders
  • bug 387749 - Organizer preview/edit pane
  • bug 387485 - Tag editor
  • bug 387722 - Bookmarks sidebar improvements
  • bug 387730 - History sidebar improvements
  • bug 396725 - Plug-able organizer views
  • bug 387734 - "Places" folders with pre-populated queries in the menu and toolbar
  • new icons (should come with theme re-do)

Prerequisites

Tagging

• bug 383803 - tagging service (fixed)
• bug 384227 - tag observers (p2, has workaround)

Smart folders

• bug 317847 - backend and basic front-end (fixed)

Statistics (bug 385831)

• storage
• queryability
• eg: searches like "most used tags" will require query functionality beyond the current query options

Add/Edit Bookmark UI

Mockup and interation notes:

• bug 393509

Implementation Bugs:

• bug 385266 - New starring, bookmarking and tagging UI
• bug 387642 - A user should be able to bookmark a page in one click
• bug 387485 - Tag editor
• bug 329261 - Tag selector

Bookmarks Menu

Mockup and interaction notes:

• XXX

Implementation bugs:

• bug 387996 - add a "Places" folder to the bookmarks menu, populated with smart folders
• XXX - change "Organize Bookmarks" to "Show All"

Bookmarks Toolbar

Mockup and interaction notes:

• XXX

Implementation bugs:

• bug 387734 Add a "Places" folder, populated with smart folders

History Sidebar

Mockup and interaction notes:

• bug 393506

Implementation bugs:

• bug 387730 - improve view options in the history sidebar

Bookmarks Sidebar

Mockup and interaction notes:

• bug 393505

Implementation bugs:

• bug 387722 - add search options to the bookmarks sidebar

Organizer

Mockups and interaction notes:

• bug 393514 - Window layout
• bug 393511 - History
• bug 393512 - Tags
• bug 393513 - Thumbnail view
• bug 393510 - advanced search

Implementation bugs:

• menus and search
  • bug 387740 - move the toolbar items in the organizer to an "Organize" menu in the search bar
  • bug 387742 - add a "Views" menu to the search bar in the organizer
  • bug 384239 - the organizer search box is too tall
  • bug 387744 - show the search builder and search results in the organizer center pane when the user starts typing
• navigation pane
• bug 387746 - add the "finder" pane above the folder tree in the organizer
  • XXX - add "all bookmarks"
  • XXX - add "tags"
  • XXX - add "downloads"
  • XXX - add "history"
• content pane
  • bug 387747 - add a star column to bookmarked items in the organizer center pane
  • bug 387748 - add a tag column in the organizer center pane, for tagged items
  • bug 387749 - add an item detail pane to the right side of the organizer
  • can edit item properties
  • bug 387750 - show a thumbnail of the bookmarked page in the item detail pane in the organizer
  • bug 387751 - add a thumbnail view in the organizer content pane

Location Bar

Mockup and interaction notes:

• bug 393508

Implementation bugs:

• bug 389584 - show 10 rows (instead of 6)
• bug 373353 - show favicons in results
• bug 389491 - autocomplete searches title and url
• bug 387718 - stars for bookmarks
• bug 387717 - have search terms highlighted
• bug 373352 - have a "search for" at the bottom
• bug 378798 - support unified bookmarks+history searches in the backend

Open Questions

menu vs toolbar

• what's the use-case for saving a bookmark in the menu vs the toolbar. might be different views on the same data? what's the use-case for having something visible in UI vs not visible? quick-click access, for mouse-oriented users?
• should the toolbar and menu be the same folder?

what are starred items, and where to put them?

• maybe they're unfiled bookmarks
• "all bookmarks" in the organizer shows starred bookmarks, and subfolders
  • ew, you have your starred mixed w/ your folders. how to show "just starred"? is that desirable? it is in gmail and greader.
• alex: starred items go in the bookmarks root, unfiled
• unfiled shouldn't show up in the menu though. if the main reason for breaking the menu out of the root is so that it doesn't show unfiled (ie: starred) bookmarks, then maybe an "all starred" subfolder would be a better solution
• problem: if you star something, and then later file, it won't show up under "starred" anywhere.

what does unstarring do?

• nonstar sometimes is a history entry (eg: urlbar dropdown)
• unstarring in the organizer could bring up a delete prompt

where should canned searches (smart folders) be exposed?

• add the canned searches to toolbar, menu, and root? mockups show them in the toolbar and in the organizer finder pane.