Fwd: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

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

Ooops.

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From: Diego Escalante <diego aureal com pe>
Date: Dec 19, 2006 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)
To: Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>


On 12/19/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> Xan Lopez wrote:
>
> >>> ...
> >> 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? :)
>
> AFAIK, the widget in f-spot is in c# so we cant use it directly (in c code)
The image view is in C (libfspot), well at least as far as I checked.

> It should be pretty simple to adapt the gnumeric chart widget to create
> a similiar c based widget - I am sure it will be very handy to have this
> for other apps too (like GThumb and maybe Nautilus). If I have time over
> XMAS I might look into this.
Haven't seen that widget, can you point me to it?

> As for the bookmarks/history, You dont need tracker to get it working
> but it would be a lot less work as tracker is already an extensible
> metadata server and first class object database. If it gets adopted by
> Gnome then it would make sense for Epiphany to use it.
Yes, it's weed if we _depend on it_ as Matthew said. But as Xan said,
it's not needed at all.

Recently I saw a nice mockup about a bookmark managing interface that
is actually a "web site", like about:epiphany I mean.
That would be killer easy to do (you just have to do some for'ing
using existing code I guess), what do you think?.
Hard thing is still creating the thumbnails, but in this case they can
be put on ~/.thumbnails as everyone does.

:)