Re: [Usability] File menu applet

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Ryan McDougall wrote:

> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:34:26 +0900
> From: Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>
> To: Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
> Cc: Gnome Usability List <usability gnome org>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] File menu applet
>
> On Sun, 2004-01-08 at 11:15 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 22.07.2004, 08:52 +0200 schrieb Daniele Levorato:
> > > Some time ago (well I think during gnome 1.4 release) there was a very
> > > helpfull applet... called "File Menu" applet or something similar. This
> > > applet allowed users to "quick browse" the filesystem like a menu where
> > > files are items and sub-directory are sub-menus.
> >
> > Version 0.6 of my bookmark applet [1] allows you to do this, see [2].
> > Feel free to help me out with translation :).
> >
> > regs,
> >  Chris
>
> Does this use a "common bookmark spec" I have heard mention of (unifying
> nautilus, ephy, other bookmarks)?

Besides my complaining about it?
Where else might you have heard about it?
(I'm hoping you'll suggest a mailing list and a rough timeframe I can search)

I had a quick look on FreeDekstop.org but didn't see anything
http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/Home

> Does such a beast exist?

I really hope so, it would be useful to have some global 'Common
Bookmarks' then applications gThumb could have a subfolder with imported
Nautilus bookmarks, and vice versa.  Epiphany has a fairly unusual way of
doing bookmarks so I'm not exactly sure how they might fit in (and I'm
firmly sticking to Mozilla Seamonkey).

I suspect the idea has been suggested before but been mooted becuase they
didn't think about it long enough to see that it could be done in
a relatively clean and organised way.

Can anyone give any advice on how to go about drafting a specification and
encourage developers to properly share bookmarks and standardize
bookmarks?

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/