Re: Bookmarks and searches

[Nigel Tao <nigel tao myrealbox com>]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 15:54 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> When Peter and Adam have fought out the database design, we'll probably 
> be able to separate the bookmarks storage from the browser ;)

Indeed, deskbar-applet is looking forward to this, since currently we
have to watch and re-parse the XML on disk every time that the bookmarks
or history file changes.


> Until then, your setup has the disadvantage that you can't get to your 
> bookmarks in one browser from another. (deskbar-applet indexes multiple 
> bookmark databases though, I wonder if we could take advantage of that 
> in some way).

Well, deskbar knows how to read multiple bookmark stores (eg epiphany,
firefox, galeon), but out of the box, we've gone with indexing and
presenting only the one from the preferred browser.  Of course, deskbar
is designed to be extensible, so that a multiple-browser-toting power
user could write a deskbar plug-in (see
http://live.gnome.org/DeskbarApplet_2fExtending ) that dispatches
different URLs to different browsers, or forms the union of all
browser's bookmarks.

An alternative is to explicitly synchronize various browsers' bookmarks,
for which you may want to look at the links on
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-November/msg00410.html


Nigel.