Re: Call for a Gnome Media Center

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:15 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:50 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:08 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > > as we do with the icons (for the cache) and the MIME associations, we
> > > (gtk+) can provide a small tool for installing the desktop places
> > > bookmarks:
> > > 
> > >   gtk-bookmark-install sound-juicer.places
> > >
> > > this tool can do conflict resolution 
> > 
> > How? Surely we just want to stick with one default (unless the user or
> > admin changes it) and stick with it? 
> 
> a plausible hierarchy could be:
> 
>   highest priority
>   user - (.local/share/places)
>   administrator - (/etc/xdg/share/places)
>   system - (/usr/share/places)
>   lowest priority

Yes, this seems very sane.

> > > >   Should "the desktop"
> > > > ship a standard set of bookmarks
> > > 
> > > this too could be doable for standard installations.  another
> > > interesting bit is the ability for system administrators to add
> > > standard
> > > places to internal resources for their users.
> > 
> > This is quite a compelling use case: so what now - anyone want to start
> > hacking on this?
> 
> I'll be working on the file chooser format switch from .gtk-bookmarks to
> a bookmark file; also, since the same format is used by gnome-panel and
> nautilus, I'll work on them.  GBookmarkFile can already load a bookmark
> from $XDG_DATA_DIR (g_bookmark_file_load_from_data_dirs()), so we just
> need to have a standard directory layout for the files.  I'll also write
> the installer/merger for GTK+ - unless someone beats me to it. :-)

Thanks! Keep rocking Emmanuele :-)

Richard.