Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Bookmarks plugin: anyone want to take over maintenance? - enhancement ideas

[Alan in T. <Ala...@pu...>]

Fredrik Jervfors said:
>> Is anyone interested in taking over maintenance and enhancement of the
>> Bookmarks plugin?
>>
>> The author posted that she's too busy to continue with it, so I'm hoping
>> that someone might step up to enhance it. SM's site says this plugin has
>> had 22930 downloads, so many people must be using it. I find it very
>> useful, but I do not know PHP. I can code HTML and I do good CSS, so I
>> could help with that as well as testing and usability ideas.
>>
>> I have an idea for a couple of small changes which would really improve
>> the functionality. They would seem to be fairly easy to enable.
>>
>> One issue with the Bookmarks plugin is that it is very difficult to edit
>> existing bookmarks or to replace them with a fresh import. If you try to
>> "Delete" a folder, you get an error message "This folder contains
>> subfolders and cannot be deleted". It is painfully tedious to have to
>> manually delete every subfolder. At some point the bookmarks in my
>> SquirrelMail prefs are outdated, so what I really want is to import a
>> fresh set from my desktop.
>>
>> Here are my suggestions:
>>
>> 1. Enable deletion of a folder with recursive deletion of any
>> subfolders.
>>
>> 2. a. Add a new command to delete all bookmarks and all folders (as
>> preparation for importing a fresh set of bookmarks). Or, b. Add a new
>> command to import a fresh set of bookmarks that will *replace* the
>> current
>> set (rather than the current method where new imports always add to
>> what's
>> already there).
>>
>> That's it. If those little enhancements could be added, Bookmarks would
>> become a much more useful plugin.
>>
>> FURTHER ENHANCEMENT IDEA
>>
>> Someday, if one wanted to go further to really enhance the
>> functionality,
>> I also have a "wish list" category of a feature that would be great to
>> have, but is likely substantially more work than the previous two ideas:
>> turn the Bookmarks into dynamic, hierarchical menus.
>>
>> This would require javascript, to parse the Bookmarks file and generate
>> menus that open into sub-menus on hover, like a dynamic navigation menu
>> on
>> a web site. This dynamic Bookmarks menu would be more efficient to use
>> (wouldn't require multiple clicks to reach nested bookarks in
>> sub-folders) and would be more like using Bookmarks/Favorites in your
>> local web browser.
>>
>> In fact last year someone did do quite a lot of development work on
>> this,
>> and he even sent me some versions to test. It was looking promising, but
>> then he just stopped for some reason and didn't post to the list
>> anymore. If anyone wants his code, I'd be happy to send it to you. But,
>> that's for the future.
>>
>> For now, if someone could do those simple enhancements, I and many other
>> Bookmarks users would be very happy. :)


> I'll take a look at this plugin this weekend. No promises though.
>
> Sincerely,
> Fredrik.

That would be great. As I say, even if you just added the two simple
enhancements (recursive deletion of all folder contents, and a "delete
all") it would significantly improve the plugin. Other enhancements would
be nice to have, but not so critical.

Thanks Fredrik.