[Opera-users] Cleaning up bookmarks

[Robert Carnegie]

>===== Original Message From "Kevin A. Smith" <kas at lucent.com>
>Subject: Re: [Opera-users] Cleaning up bookmarks
>Reply-To: opera-users at opera.com
>
>At 10:13 PM 6/7/2001 -0700, James Card wrote:
>>6/7/01 9:31:26 PM, "Kevin A. Smith" <kas at lucent.com> wrote:
>>
>> >At 12:11 AM 6/8/2001 -0400, Erik wrote:
>> >>
>> >>On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, at 19:45:27 [GMT -0700]
>> >>
>> >>You can move folders and bookmarks around. To reorder bookmarks inside
>> >>a folder, you must alt-drag the bookmark to where you want it. For
>> >>folders, you can drag it to another folder, or you can alt-drag to
>> >>reorder the folders.
>> >
>> >I don't get it. What do you mean by alt-drag the bookmark? As soon as
>> >I hit ALT, the bookmarks menu closes....
>>
>>Not in the menu -- use the F4 key to toggle the Hotlist window open,
>>then edit your bookmarks. F4 again will close the Hotlist when you're
>>finished.
>
>Ah......duh! Thanks...now I'll go and sit in the corner and be quiet :-)

To be fair, it would be useful if the Bookmarks menu had an
"Open Hotlist Pane" item.  I presume that it doesn't because
it would have to read "Open Hotlist Pane - F4 or F7 or Ctrl and F2",
which is too long to fit onto 640x480 pixel screens :-)

That goes for e-mail as well.  Opera e-mail is a _much_ richer user
experience after you open its panel of folders - when I eventually
noticed it......

It's rather cute to keep it as secret knowledge for "power users"!
For best results, also redesign the Hotlist icon on the toolbar to be
mysterious, exoteric (that's my personal "did you make that up?"
word for today).

I'd find the Bookmarks menu more efficient if...excuse me...ah, so
you _can_ turn off "Show commands" in the Bookmarks menu if you want
your pixels back. Alt+P preferences, under "Hotlist".  Very neat.
Thank you.  I think there's a case  for putting a "Bookmarks" pane
in Preferences that simply says "See Hotlist" underlined, so that
you can click on it to go to the Hotlist preferences pane.  On the
other hand, there's the 640x480 limit again...

I'm slightly confused myself about which function keys open the pane,
close the pane, activate the pane (make it the focus for keyboard
controls), open the pane _without_ activating it, etc.

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland