Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

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

On 12/19/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:
> 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 idea is to copy the widgets from f-spot, not depend on f-spot. And
all the data-server/tracker ideas would be only buy us some random
amount of advantages, but are not needed at all to get this working.
Do you have any opinion about the whole thing btw? :)

> 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
> --
> Matthew Paul Thomas
> http://mpt.net.nz/
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