Re: [Nautilus-list] Bookmarks in sidebar tab

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On Sat, 2001-09-15 at 22:29, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Ben Ford">
> 
> > >/me considers library-based, and CORBA-based approaches using an
> > >easy-to-edit XML file format.
> > 
> > /me reminds again that Mozilla is not and will not be a Gnome project.
> > 
> > If you want a common file format, you will need to adopt Mozilla's.  Or 
> > you can write an application to translate. But don't expect them to 
> > match your chosen format.
> 
> ... and/or ask the Galeon developers to participate in a bookmarks
> standardisation effort. This would work much like the current thumbnail
> standards discussion going on at the moment.

There is a "standard" called XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language)
developed by the Python XML SIG.  KDE uses it natively and Galeon can
import/export it (and it will be native one day soon).

All that is needed is a CORBA api to access it.

Ross