Fwd: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

["Diego Escalante" <diego aureal com pe>]

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From: Diego Escalante <diego aureal com pe>
Date: Dec 11, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)
To: Xan Lopez <xan lopez gmail com>


On 12/11/06, Xan Lopez <xan lopez gmail com> wrote:
> 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.
If not, porting is fun and helps you make new friends. :)

> > <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 :)

Forgot to mention that but I'm not sure if having ephy-d-s would be
worth doing or if it would be overkill for normal usage.
> > 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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