Re: New GBookmarkFile API in GLib 2.12

[nf2 <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

nf2 wrote:
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >   
> >     
> Just some thoughts on filechooser bookmarks, VFS etc...
>
> 1) Shouldn't there be one file per bookmark instead of a single file for 
> all of them? With a single file there might be a chance of loosing data 
> when two applications try to edit the bookmark list at the same time.
>
> 2) Why not use a simpler format than .xbel for filechooser bookmarks, 
> desktop-entry files for instance?
>
> 3) Filechooser bookmarks should be shared between KDE and Gnome.
>
> 4) What about other VFS settings like the list of "connected servers" 
> ("remote places" in KIO). Could they also be stored as .xbel bookmarks 
> or desktop-entry files instead of using GConf.
>
> 5) Perhaps there should be a standard place to store everyhing VFS 
> related. I believe the GConf / KConfig dependencies of Gnome-VFS and KIO 
> should be removed.
>
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-vfs/bookmarks/
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-vfs/recent-files/
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-vfs/remote-places/
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/desktop-vfs/conf/
>   

Sorry,

$XDG_DATA_HOME/desktop-vfs/bookmarks/
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/desktop-vfs/recent-files/
$XDG_DATA_HOME/desktop-vfs/remote-places/
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/desktop-vfs/conf/

...looks better, of course.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

> The "conf" directory could be used to store VFS configuration like proxy 
> settings, smb workgroup etc using .ini style files...
>
> regards,
> Norbert
>
>