Re: Browser Bookmarks Menu (Gnome Applet) 0.2

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Really it seems like it would be better to have a way for all the
browsers to simply share a bookmarks database.  We were close to this
dream for a while with both galeon and konquerer using the xbel
standard, but from what I can tell epiphany switched to something
incompatible when they did the fork.  So, alas.

-Rob

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 15:52 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:01 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not so into that idea.  If people want the bookmarks from previously
> > > used browsers then they can and should migrate them.  I think you would
> > 
> > This doesn't fly when people use multiple browsers alongside (but true, 
> > this isn't a very common scenario). Regardless of that, having to 
> > manually migrate bookmarks is placing a unnecessary burden on the user. 
> > Why not let the computer do the sensible thing and have it Just Work?
> 
> I do indeed use three browsers for three different tasks - Epiphany for
> general browsing, Firefox for development, and Opera for testing of
> development.  Yes, I boomarks in all.  However, I *do not* want the
> bookmarks from Firefox or Opera in any main bookmark menu - i just want
> general browsing stuff there.
> 
> If you do aggregate bookmarks, make sure that:
> 1) users can remove/edit/hide bookmarks without having to launch the
> browser.
> 2) let users block out certain browsers.
> 3) when a bookmark is clicked, open the browser it was imported from, as
> there's probably a reason the bookmark is only in one of the browsers.
>