Re: Browser Bookmarks Menu (Gnome Applet) 0.2

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

I apologize for this.  I suppose this is what I get when I use HEAD
builds of evolution.

-Rob

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:58 -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> 
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