Thats quite a bit of new code to land; but if really simplifies things as
much as you say, I'm willing to give a +1.

I guess those are new strings ?

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:26 AM, Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We were hoping to have this finished before freeze, but unfortunately
> the work was completed a week late. We have patches to add a search
> engines manager to Epiphany in Bugzilla:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776738
>
> Screenshot attached. The UI could still use more polish, but I want to
> merge it now anyway, even though it's a lot for a freeze break, for a
> couple reasons:
>
>  * It adds support for DuckDuckGo-style search engine bangs, an
> important feature request.
>
>  * It massively simplifies how search engine management works in
> Epiphany. Currently it's handled by adding %s to a bookmark, which is
> undiscoverable and kinda nuts. It's called "smart bookmarks." In
> Epiphany 3.22, it was at least possible to edit these bookmarks
> manually via the bookmarks dialog. But in current master, there is no
> way to edit an existing smart bookmark. You can add smart bookmarks,
> but you can never remove them.
>
>  * Accordingly, it greatly simplifies some of the backing code for our
> new bookmarks popover. The bookmarks popover has been the source of
> lots of bugs recently, so simplifying this code would be very
> beneficial for us. In particular, it enables us to remove the
> EphyBookmarksListModel class, which is a fragile class that exists just
> to filter out our smart bookmarks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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