Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:53 AM, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Xan Lopez wrote:
> > > 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.
> ...
> > 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 :)
>
> (1) is easy enough to do with Tracker (which is already similiar to EDS
> and is an sqlite/Dbus daemon) but it requires tracker to get into Gnome
> 2.18 either as a package or as a dependency before we can use it in
> epiphany.
> ...

I think we may have run off into the weeds a bit here. Surely it can't 
be necessary to (a) make a dependency on a photo management tool, and 
(b) require Tracker in Gnome, *just to get thumbnails of Web pages in 
Epiphany*? 8-)

The Reveal extension for Firefox makes thumbnails of Web pages in 
Firefox 1.5, without any such drastic dependencies.
<http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/reveal/>

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/