[PROPOSAL] Desktop Bookmarks

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Thu May 12 17:47:50 EEST 2005


On Thursday 12 May 2005 14:37, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:18 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > So it's important whether we have one file with everything in it (please
> > not!), or a file for desktop-bookmarks and another file for recent-files.
>
> Okay, here goes another revision of the bookmarks-spec.  I separated the
> files for desktop-wide bookmarks and for recently used objects (files,
> applications as launchers, locations, etc.), and placed them under
> $XDG_DATA_HOME:
>
> http://devel.emmanuelebassi.net/papers/bookmark-spec-0.5.html

It would be nice to support system wide (shared by all users) bookmarks as 
well. Perhaps by adding that bookmarks located under any of the 
$XDG_DATA_DIRS directories should be included as well.

Only for desktop-wide bookmarks of course, it makes no sense for recently used 
objects.

Cheers,
Waldo
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