Re: [Epiphany] Re: Integrating bookmarks into OpenApplet

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpeseng tin it>]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:55, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti writes: 
> 
> > This was a private message with Dave, posting here because it's related
> > to the project and I have no other way to contact him ;)
>  
> 
> I have abosolutely no clue why you're email is being blocked by my provider? 
> Do use sendmail by anychance? I had problems with all my mail being blocked 
> by sun because i was using sendmail awhile back instead of my school's email 
> server. :/ Will investigate more. 

I'm in your mail server spam blocklist.

> > I think trying to use epiphany storage directly call problems :)
> > What about to extend the corba interface or to right one for bookmarks
> 
> Sounds technical :) 

Heh well it's nothing difficult. Have a look to the idl/ dir, that's a
corba interface. You can use it to communicate between apps.
We should prolly have something like that for bookmarks. Maybe something
more generic.

> > instead and use it to get info from epiphany ? (You need epiphany
> > running though, even with no windows, that doesnt matter).
> > If you give me more details about what you want to implement ui wise I
> > can try to help designing it ...
> 
> Here's sort of a list of things i want to work with epiphany bookmarks. 
> 
> 1) type a title of a bookmark in the text entry that case insensitively 
> matches the title of a bookmark in the database, open applet gets the 
> address and gnom_vfs_url_shows it. 
> 
> 2) once kris combo lands I want drop down autocompletion based upon epiphany 
> bookmarks, recent files and openapplet history (maybe ephy history too). 
> 
> 3) I want a list of smart bookmarks at the bottom of the kris combo drop 
> down. Epiphany wise, i just need to be able to get the smart address for the 
> bookmark so that I can create an address to call gnome_vfs_url_show with. 
> Also i plan to add checkbox next to the current default search, choosing a 
> different smartbookmark will change the default search to the chosen 
> smartbookmark and obviously the checkmark will visually inform the user of 
> this. 

Basically you seem to need a way to enumerate bookmarks and their
properties. It's not hard to implement but we have to design a decent
interface. I'm not exactly the more experienced person about interface
design but ... I guess we can find something acceptable. Sounds like
something good to be discussed in irc.

Btw http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116629 is an excellent
usage case too.
Too bad dbus is still not mature. This is potentially freedesktop (way
better than useless xbel anyway ;)

Marco