Bookmarks shared among desktop environments

[Jakub Stachowski]

Dnia poniedziałek, 18 kwietnia 2005 22:40, Jamie McCracken napisał:
> Brad Hards wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:47 am, Christian Neumair wrote:
> >>I've recently decided to implement a D-Bus-powered bookmarks system,
> >>which aims to provide categorized file and web bookmarks.
> >
> > Why is this a good idea?
> >
> > In particular, given that we have a fairly widely supported format for
> > web bookmarks:
> > http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/
> >
> > Why don't we simply agree on a common file location for that (~/.xbel/ or
> > ~/.fdo/xbel/ ?), and move onto the next task?
> >
> > What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>
> Its nice to have notifications for bookmarks when they change (Nautilus
> already does this - so all nautilus windows have up to date bookmarks).

dnotify/inotify/fam + wrapper for your desktop environment (kdirwatcher for 
kde, don't know what for gnome)

>
> Its also nice to have one api/system for all config/prefs which is the
> raison d'etre of DConf.

For now that whole DConf consists only of flames on xdg mailinglist. 

> A myriad of standards makes admin jobs more difficult.

And as usual the solution is to invent Yet Another Standard.

>
> jamie.
>
> > Brad
> >
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