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Bug 334201 - [client] organization of favorites in the UI
Summary: [client] organization of favorites in the UI
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Client (show other bugs)
Version: 0.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 0.5 M2   Edit
Assignee: Susan McCourt CLA
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Reported: 2011-01-12 22:25 EST by Susan McCourt CLA
Modified: 2012-05-18 12:13 EDT (History)
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Description Susan McCourt CLA 2011-01-12 22:25:33 EST 
Currently, a user's favorite file/folder items and favorite searches are treated separately from an API point of view.  This is bogus.  One would imagine you could favorite all kinds of URLs and it's up to the UI to tag, organize or filter them as makes sense.
Comment 1 Susan McCourt CLA 2011-09-26 13:36:30 EDT 
In bug 347058 comment 2, Libing discusses how he works on the same group of files for a particular purpose.  It would be nice to let the user group favorites however they like.  We could always have default groups of "Favorites" and "Searches" as today if we like separating them (or want to preserve the old behavior) but these would be user-driven.

See also bug 347058.  If we have a "manage favorites" page, then there is a lot more room to work with all these ideas.
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-01-12 18:48:17 EST 
removing milestone for now.  It's not realistic that we'll put effort into organizing/managing favorites in 0.4.  I think the important thing is bug 347058, a way to get to the favorites easily from non-nav pages.
Comment 3 Andrew Eisenberg CLA 2012-01-21 17:11:07 EST 
It would be nice to be able to have more control over organizing favorites, including a way to have multiple favorites folders, but I agree that this is a lower priority than bug 347058.
Comment 4 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-05-18 12:13:56 EDT 
The direction for now is to move away from "favorites as groupings of random links" and instead "favorites is a navigator for the navigator."  So we moved searches to the search page and cleaned up the API so that saved searches are managed in a different preference.

We may continue to evolve what "favorites" means but I think we can consider this particular bug closed.