bookmark management and other code reuse

[Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdslink ro>]

There are several gnome applications which implement bookmark management
( galeon, ephiphany, nautilus, gftp, yelp ). The degree of usability and
functionality varies from great ( galeon ) to very bad ( gftp ) and
planning ( yelp ). I don't know how it is in ephiphany.

I think the galeon bookmarks code is completely separated from main
code, need to check this. I suggest to the other application developers
to use that too. I CC'ed gftp author, yelp already has a bug with this.

The idea to provide some independent code from one project it's very
good ( galeon bookmarks, ephiphany toolbar, libgaim from gaim ). It
would be great if re-using that code would not simply be done by
copy-pasting code ( and then forget of the parent project ) but rather
include it as it is and from time to time re-sync it from the parent
project ( adding dependencies would reduce the code amount but create a
maintenance nightmare ).

So, to the developers who separate and reuse code this way, thank you!
It's more effort, but it has the most benefits in the long run.

What are the problems you are facing with this? Is 'not made here' a big
issue?

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Marius Andreiana
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