Re: New GBookmarkFile API in GLib 2.12

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 17:17 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm interested by porting the nautilus_bookmark_* API to the new
> g_bookmark_file API from GLib 2.12. But I have some questions:
> 
> - Is it ok if nautilus 2.15 depends on glib 2.12 or should it wait for
> nautilus 2.17 ?
> 
> - Where should the bookmark file be saved ? Maybe we should discuss this
> with Gtk guys because it should be user by GtkFileChooser too. Now the
> file is ~/.gtk-bookmark

In order to avoid breakage, and to follow the spec[1], the bookmarks
file should have the .xbel extension; the spec itself proposes to use
the $HOME/.shortcuts.xbel file for storing the file selectors shortcuts.

There should also be a folder for storing user-defined bookmark files:
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-bookmarks (which should expand to something like:
$HOME/.local/share/desktop-bookmarks); each file inside that folder
should be parsed to build the list of bookmarks.

> - Is it ok to make the change now or should we wait for GtkFileChooser
> before to copy how they do ?

I'll probably be the one working on the FileChooser integration of
bookmarks and recent files, so a parallel effort might be better. ;-)

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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