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eric-bixby / auto-sort-bookmarks-webext

Firefox add-on to sort bookmarks by multiple criteria
GNU General Public License v3.0
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sorting folders by name + bookmarks by date #10

Closed clown200knax closed 9 years ago

clown200knax commented 9 years ago

First and foremost thank you Antoyo for this wonderful add-on.

Would be amazing if you could add the feature that different bookmark types (folders, bookmarks, smart...) can be sorted differently.

ex. Folders (at the top) sorted by name - Bookmarks sorted by date.

Please let me know

antoyo commented 9 years ago

This add-on needs a complete rewrite. I'll add this feature and other requested features when I rewrite it. I'll try to do it this summer.

clown200knax commented 9 years ago

I couldn't ask for more. Would appreciate if you could let me know then.

clown200knax commented 9 years ago

Hello antoyo,

any updates from your side on this one?

Please let me know

antoyo commented 9 years ago

No, sorry. I'm quite busy these days and, as I don't use Firefox anymore, this is not in my priorities. By the way, Mozilla is quite slow to approve a rewrite of another of my add-on : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/down-for-everyone-or-just-me/versions/ I used another language than JavaScript, as I intented to do with Auto-Sort Bookmarks (ASB), and it seems to cause some issues for the review (obfuscated JavaScript…). If they don't approve it, I believe I won't rewrite ASB soon.

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

If the AMO editor is thinking you are obfuscating JavaScript, when you are really just using another language, you can politely point that out and ask for a reviewer that is knowledgeable in the language you used. They should be very willing to comply with your simple and reasonable request.

antoyo commented 9 years ago

That's what they thought at the beginning. So, I replied to explain the situation (more than one month ago) and I added the original source code on GitHub with build instructions. But I did not get any reply.

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

Sorry to hear that happened to you. Try again. They sometimes lose messages or get behind on projects. They will likely have to assign your extensions to a reviewer who understands OCaml. It's a pretty straightforward language, so even if they don't have an expert, they should be able to understand the general idea.

BTW, what got you using OCaml?

antoyo commented 9 years ago

I've just sent another email and a post on IRC: I'll see what will happen.

I switch to OCaml because some users got bugs that I cannot reproduce on my computer and I hope that Auto-Sort Bookmarks will be more robust written in a strongly/statically typed language. Also, I like this programming language for being concise, modular, functional and strongly/statically typed.

Gitoffthelawn commented 9 years ago

Sounds great! Hopefully they will get it done.

OCaml has many wonderful benefits. I agree with everything you said!

clown200knax commented 9 years ago

Hi antoyo & Gitoffthelawn,

If both bookmarks could be sorted by date combined with folders sorted by name, this would definitely be a 5-star FF add-on. The user numbers would go through the roof.

Thank you for your work.

antoyo commented 9 years ago

This feature has been added in version 2.8.