RE: Bookmark Daemon

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Well, A common bookmark format would be nice, but has one limitation. With
bookmarkd, bookmarkd can transparently be updated to support things like
LDAP and group sharing of bookmarks. This is something that a normal file
format can not do. Also, I decided to use corba because it will allow
bookmarkd to get and set bookmarks from any program regardless of where it
is, or what programming language it is made in. It is fairly simple for a
program to be extended to use corba. I am going to be talking with the
Mnemonic people to see if they would be interested in using bookmarkd
instead. I am also going to write a patch to lynx to allow it to use
bookmarkd to store its bookmarks. Then you can share bookmarks between lynx
and Mnemonic. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol@pvv.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:45 AM
> To: Fox, Kevin M
> Cc: 'gnome-list@gnome.org'
> Subject: Re: Bookmark Daemon
> 
> 
> "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox@mail.bhi-erc.com> writes:
> 
> | I have created a daemon for storing bookmarks.
> | http://www.csoft.net/~bob/projects/bookmarkd. It has been 
> discouraging that
> | all the bookmark using programs do not use the same format 
> or share code.
> | You cant read netscape bookmarks in lynx. You cant read IE 
> bookmarks in
> | netscape... That sort of thing. This daemon should allow 
> you to allow your
> | program to easily get/set bookmarks.
> | 
> | Basically the story is: I was board over the week end, had 
> a few hours of
> | good coding time, and I decided to try to better the world. :)
> | 
> | I think it would be cool to add a book mark menu to gmc so 
> that you could
> | bookmark your favorite directories. The bookmark could be a simple
> | file:///home/bob/whatever/ url. The "file" protocol will 
> need to be added
> | into the url handler to open gmc. If I get a few hours this 
> week, I might
> | just code it myself. If not... Joe Bob, or whoever could 
> code it. It should
> | only take a few lines of code to make it talk to bookmarkd. 
> (That is, if
> | everyone thinks it would be a good idea.)
> 
> There is an existing XML file format called XBEL. Please have a look
> at it: <URL:http://www.python.org/topics/xml/xbel/docs/html/xbel.html>
> It would be nice if you used it so that other browsers++ can access
> the bookmarks without CORBA. Not all have CORBA support. 
> 
> XBEL covers Netscape and Opera bookmarks, and Mnemonic will also use
> this for bookmarks.
>  
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