Places:Fx3UIPlan

Places UI Implementation Plan for Firefox 3

Notes

THIS IS A DRAFT

Prerequisites

Tagging service (bug #)

• completed
• tag observers?

Break out the bookmarks menu into it's own special folder (bug #)

• ugh, see "open questions" below
• it's another special folder, not delete-able
• does not contain the toolbar folder

Smart folders (bug #)

• saved searches
• read only
  • possible exceptions
    • drag a url or bookmark to a tag folder, tags that uri
    • drag a tag folder out of a MRU tags, for example, doesn't change the smart folder contents, but copies the folder to the drop position
• "show all" as the last item (where capped), when clicked loads organizer w/ that search populated
• editing
  • where are they created? a view in the organizer
  • take a look at spotlight UI
• needs new icon set (normal, hover, etc)

Statistics storage (bug #)

• for canned searches
• examples
  • recently used folders
  • most used tags

Platform dependencies

• XXX list any external dependency bugs here

Allow bookmarking/tagging from primary UI (bug #)

Button/icon location

• toolbar button
• location bar
• favicon menu

Interaction

• single-click fills in the star (bookmarks the URI)
• double-click the star icon for popup
  • folder option is checked
• keyboard shortcut cmd+d shows popup
  • with folder option checked
• keyboard shortcut for tagging (TBD) shows popup
  • folder option not checked

Popup

• "Name" entry field
• "Create in folder" (no change)
  • folder menu
    • bookmarks menu and toolbar are permanent staticentries
    • 5 most-recently-used folders
  • folder expander
  • folder tree
• "Tag"
  • tag editor field
    • look at mail.app address completion
    • XXX add details from the mail from alex to swon
  • tag list expander
  • tag list
    • list of tags with checkboxes on the left
    • sort by most-used tags
    • enhancement: show how many times the tag is used?

Bookmarks Menu

• change "Organize Bookmarks" to "Show All", make it the first item
• contents are rooted to the new "menu" special folder

Bookmarks Toolbar

Add a "Places" folder (bug #)

• contains these prepopulated saved search folders
  • recently starred
  • recently used tags
    • subfolders are tag folders
  • most used tags
  • recently visited bookmarks
  • most visited bookmarks

History Sidebar

• search is broken out into it's own bar
• add a "view" bar
  • has a dropdown for selecting which items to view
    • "tagged items"
    • XXX what else here
  • the old "view" dropdown is adjacent to it
  • add a "plus" icon for adding addition filtering criteria
• interaction

bookmarks sidebar

   - [ ] search
   - [ ] advanced search
   - [ ] has a button for advanced
   - [ ] a way to save from the advanced search

organizer

   - [ ] main
       - [ ] view/hide sidebars? alex: no
   - [ ] search bar
       - [ ] start typing, and get the advanced search UI in the
             content pane
   - [ ] "finder" pane, top-left
       - [ ] all bookmarks
       - [ ] all tags
       - [ ] toolbar
       - [ ] menu
       - [ ] downloads
       - [ ] history
   - [ ] folder pane, bottom-left
       - [ ] same as clicking "all bookmarks"
       - [ ] new folders go under static items (menu folder, toolbar
             folder)
   - [ ] content pane
       - [ ] star column
       - [ ] name
       - [ ] tag column
   - [ ] detail pane, right side
       - [ ] show always
       - [ ] screenshot
       - [ ] edit properties
   - [ ] thumbnail view in content pane?
       - [ ] richlistbox w/ screenshot, favicon, details

search box

   - [ ] start
   - [ ] bookmarks and history

urlbar dropdown

   - [ ] have a "show all" at the bottom
   - [ ] have terms highlighted
   - [ ] stars

regressions

   - [ ] bookmarks menu is not the bookmarks root
       - [ ] for users of the menu, this will appear as though their
             bookmarks are gone

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 a "starred" subfolder would be a better solution
       - [ ] or an "all starred" saved search, which contains unfiled
             bookmarks?
       - [ ] 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.
   - [ ] are canned searches removable and editable?
       - [ ] they are removable and editable in iTunes