Re: Google Bookmarks plugin for epiphany

["Magnus Therning" <magnus therning org>]

2008/11/20 Michael Stephenson <mickstephenson googlemail com>:
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> 2008/11/20 Magnus Therning <magnus therning org>
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>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Fabio Rafael da Rosa
>> <fabiorafael rosa gmail com> wrote:
>> > Em Qui, 2008-11-20 às 12:01 +0000, Magnus Therning escreveu:
>> >> I would personally consider using the password store to retrieve the
>> >> password (either from epiphany's password store or the Gnome Keyring)
>> >> for google bookmarks rather than pull in the cookie from the browser.
>> >> Requiring that the user has logged in (i.e. that there is a cookie)
>> >> doesn't feel right to me.  This is the direction I'm planning to take
>> >> epilicious in, as soon as I find some inspiration and spare time :-)
>> > The whole idea of using the cookie (or better, exposing the cookie in an
>> > easy way for other plugins to consume) is to provide a better experience
>> > for people that uses lots of google services. Google provides a 'Single
>> > Sign On' mechanism for it's services, and I think that, if the idea is
>> > to 'merge' epiphany on the cloud, that the way to go (for google). ON
>> > the future, it will be possible to implement more google-based plugins,
>> > all using the same login (instead of requiring a separete login/pass for
>> > each service). I personally think that this way we can provide a better
>> > experience to the user.
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>> If single-sign-on is what you want then you really ought to use Gnome
>> Keyring, pull out the Google password and then push the cookie into
>> epiphany.  It _ought_ to be simple ;-)
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>> >> Do you have good documentation for the google bookmarks API?  Last
>> >> time I looked there wasn't anything offical from Google.  I managed to
>> >> track down something based on a reverse-engineering effort (I think)
>> >> but then ran out of time/steam and didn't put it in epilicious.
>> > No , I don't. Google did not release any official documentation for
>> > google bookmarks. But, it is quite easy to use (I did the same as you
>> > for finding the API).
>> >
>> > I like epilicious and del.icio.us , but, we don't have an alternative
>> > for people that _dont_ use delicious. I know lots of people that don't
>> > use epiphany mainly because it does not have google toolbar. I like the
>> > idea of integrating google services with the browser, I personally use a
>> > lot of them, and that would  make my life easier, and, I think, that's
>> > the main point for GNOME and that's why I like epiphany: keep it simple
>> > and easy . That's my target audience.
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>> I should point out that despite the name epilicious no longer supports
>> del.icio.us, its API was too flakey to support in the end.  Currently
>> it only has ma.gnolia support.
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>> Personally I don't use any Google services that I want browser support
>> for so I'm clearly not in the target audience for this :-)
>>
>> /M
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> Wouldn't Mozilla Weave be the natural choice, it being open and all, and
> allowing people to run their own servers?

Sure, but I think we've come upon one of the beauties of OpenSource
here, there is no need to limit ourselves to just support either
Google Apps or Mozilla Weave, we can do both.  Personally I'm more
likely to use Mozilla Weave, but I wouldn't mind having the option to
choose.

/M

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