Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

["Xan Lopez" <xan lopez gmail com>]

Hey,

On 12/11/06, Diego Escalante <diego aureal com pe> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was sitting here reading the wiki[1] and just remembered that
> thumbnailing for websites is a feature request getting rotten[2].
> Now, I also read suggestions to use the f-spot navigation widget[3]
> which I think is total crack and would make Ephy so BLING BLING that
> it would easily become a killer app.
>
> I thought a little about it so I wouldn't write crack stuff that is
> impossible, and found that using that widget (together with the actual
> image browsing one, I mean the one where this slider takes effect)
> would be easy.

So I understand that both widgets are written in C and not in C#? Nice.

> <innocent-guess>
> Since f-spot is an image app and this two widgets (browsing slider and
> view pane) are image-centric we can easily embrace them just by
> providing what they want: images. How? with some good ol' copy-paste
> from gnome-web-photo, of course there would be a lot of crack needed
> to make f-spot magic work on Ephy.
> </innocent-guess>
>
> As far as I can see the consequences of this, hacking it would imply
> the following:
> 1. Integrating bookmarks and history
> 2. Integrating gnome-web-photo or at least copy-paste the relevant parts
> 3. Create a new window/widget based on f-spot that can be fed with a
> set of images (as in f-spot) obtained from a bookmarks or history
> items range/set.
>   3½. Document it! (or maybe make it available to other apps and not just Ephy)
> 4. Ask a mad amount of questions to everyone
> 5. Enjoy success

IMHO the really hard part is (1). If there's really the will to do it
I think we should take it into consideration together with the plan to
move towards a sqlite/ephy-data-server model and try to get everything
together for 2.20. I mean, if we are going to do crack, let's do it
properly :)

> So the reason to write this to the list is to hear some opinions about
> how can this be done and to receive some tips. I would gladly get into
> this, and if someone wants to "mentor" me I would be twice glad :).
>
> Opinions of the Ephy gurus will be appreciated.
>
> End of crack, get back to your normal mailing.
>
> References:
> 1 - http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/BookmarksHistoryIntegration
> 2 - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326508
> 3 - http://live.gnome.org/data/Epiphany(2f)BookmarksHistoryIntegration/attachments/fspot-time-bar.png
>
> --
> Diego, your crack-feature suggester.
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