Re: [Nautilus-list] Bookmarks in sidebar tab

[George Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

Hi folks, time for me to de-lurk on this one,
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Maciej Stachowiak/ wrote:

> I'm not even sure if it's right for Nautilus and something like Galeon
> or Mozilla to have the same set of bookmarks. For instance, it's
> pretty useful for me to bookmark local directories I visit often in
> Nautilus, but this bookmark would be just noise in a program I use
> only as a web browser. Likewise I may want to bookmark my favorite ftp
> sites or smb shares in Nautilus, and these bookmarks would be less
> useful in a pure web browser.
>
> Conversely, since I use Nautilus less for web browsing than other
> programs, bookmarks for all my favorite web sites may or may not be
> useful. Certainly anything with Flash animations or heavy use of
> JavaScript wouldn't be.
Mostly, when I decide to look at some content (whether it's on the web 
or local), I'd like to use whichever browser is most convenient - i.e., 
whichever one is open and in focus. I wouldn't want to switch to a 
different browser just to look at a different type of content, 
especially if I'm following hyperlinks (and files that I'm opening in 
Nautilus frequently link to items on the web).

So, if I'm viewing a page in a browser that is perhaps not best-suited 
for it, I usually don't have the discipline to switch to the browser 
that I think I'll be viewing the page from in the future - instead, I 
just bookmark it in whatever I'm using and go on. Over time, I 
accumulate bookmarks in each browser that I use, and I have to manually 
merge them, or more likely, open both browsers looking for some bookmark 
that I haven't used in some time.

Ideally, you could share bookmarks between browsers in a way that 
doesn't show up as noise. For instance, you could add a single folder to 
each browser's bookmark menu. It could contain subdirectories that 
correspond to the bookmarks of the other browsers in the system. So, for 
the small cost of 1 entry to the top-level bookmark menu, you've have 
access to all of your bookmarks independent of which browser you 
happened to be using at the time you bookmarked it.

- George

P.S., on a related note, it would be interesting if you could manipulate 
bookmarks using a virtual folder concept, like in Evolution. I have 
plenty of bookmarks that I would really like to pre-sort into muliple 
folders, because they each apply to multiple categories. 

As a bonus, you could share the folders between browsers if you'd 
decided that sharing bookmarks between applications was a good idea.