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authorPatanjali Somayaji <patanja@src.gnome.org>2003-08-11 16:07:22 +0800
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Added in help documentation about bookmark system
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diff --git a/help/C/epiphany.xml b/help/C/epiphany.xml
index 913cebc1f..7314531c6 100644
--- a/help/C/epiphany.xml
+++ b/help/C/epiphany.xml
@@ -130,23 +130,48 @@
<title>To Open the Bookmarks Window</title>
<para>You can open the bookmarks window in the following ways:</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term><guimenu>Applications</guimenu> menu</term>
<listitem>
<para>Choose
<menuchoice>
<guisubmenu>Internet</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Web Bookmarks</guimenuitem>
- </menuchoice>. </para>
+ </menuchoice>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Command line</term>
<listitem>
<para>Type <command>epiphany -b</command>, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
+
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>From the <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Choose <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Edit Bookmarks</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice> from the &fr; main window.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>From the &fr; toolbar</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Click on the Bookmarks button in the toolbar of the
+ main window.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -408,6 +433,115 @@ you can choose items related to the display of the web page.</para>
<sect2 id="overview-of-bookmarks">
<title>Overview of the Epiphany Bookmarks System</title>
<para>
+ The &fr; bookmark system is quite different from the
+ heirarchical file folder method used by most
+ broswers. This design is in keeping with two design
+ principles:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ Building a browser with the simplest interface possible.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ Avoiding the need for the user to remember addresses of
+ sites that the user wants to visit.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The hierarchical way of organising bookmarks does not work
+ well for most people. Instead of this approach, &fr;
+ follows a database like approach. An address related to a
+ bookmark is stored with some metadata associated with
+ it. This metadata is then used to retrieve a bookmark
+ later. Future versions of &fr; will provide useful ways of
+ searching for and retrieving bookmarks using this
+ database.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In the &fr; bookmark system, addresses are organised by
+ associating each address with one or more topic. For
+ example, if one were to store a bookmark for
+ <ulink type="http" url="http://developer.gnome.org">GNOME
+ Developers home page</ulink>, in any other browser, the user
+ might store it under the following hierarchy:
+ <programlisting>
+ Development -> GNOME -> GNOME developers home page
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In &fr;, the same page could be associated with two
+ topics:
+ <programlisting>
+ Development -> GNOME developers home page
+ GNOME -> GNOME developers home page
+ </programlisting>
+ Now the user can access this bookmark by typing the
+ topic "GNOME" or "Development" in the location
+ bar. The user can also type in any of the words "GNOME",
+ "developers", "home" or "page" in the location bar. Either of these
+ methods drops a list containing the required bookmark. For
+ all ways to access bookmarks, see <xref
+ linkend="to-access-a-bookmark"/>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ <note>
+ <title>No Subtopics</title>
+ <para>
+ &fr; allows only a single level of topics. Topics cannot
+ have sub-topics.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="to-access-a-bookmark">
+ <title>To Access a bookmark</title>
+ <para>
+ The primary way to access bookmarks is the bookmarks
+ window. To open the bookmarks window, see <xref
+ linkend="ephy-to-open-bookmarks"/>.
+ A separate window is used for organising bookmarks because
+ that makes it easier to navigate, and also allows it to
+ have search and edit
+ functionalities in the same place. The bookmarks
+ collection can be directly edited from the desktop. In the
+ same place, it is now possible to edit the bookmark title
+ inline, add more topics, remove bookmarks, associate them
+ to more topics with drag and drop, edit properties of a
+ bookmark, etc.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The bookmarks can also be
+ accessed by:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ Typing in a topic in the location bar of the main
+ window drops down a list of bookmarks of that category.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ A word typed into the location bar are automatically
+ searched in the bookmark database and matching bookmarks
+ are shown in a drop down list below the location bar.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ The menu item <guimenu>Bookmark</guimenu> gives a menu of all the
+ different topics. Bookmarks related to these topics can
+ then be accessed from submenus here. This is closest to
+ the traditional method of accessing bookmarks, and is
+ provided to keep compatibility.
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ The bookmark bar can also be used to access your
+ bookmarks.
+ Choose <menuchoice>
+ <guimenu>View</guimenu>
+ <guimenuitem>Bookmarks Bar</guimenuitem>
+ </menuchoice>
+ to add the Bookmark bar. However, each topic and
+ bookmark needs to be configured in the Bookmarks dialog
+ to be shown on this bar. This can be used to organise
+ most frequently used bookmarks.
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="to-create-new-bookmark">