Re: [Usability] File menu applet

[Jonathan Rockway <jrockway gmail com>]

I really like the idea of having one bookmark store.  This is
something that does not need to be application or desktop dependent. 
Here's my idea:

Store a bookmark as:

A URI
A mime-type
Other things that I'm forgetting :)

Then, an app can filter on mime-type.  Firefox, epiphany, konqueror,
and lynx will "import" (show is a better word) the text/html (etc)
bookmarks, while nautilus, file-browser-applet, and konqueror (the
file-browsing konqueror) can filter on file:// URIs, etc.

Adding some metadata would be good (because isn't that how epiphany
organizes bookmarks)?

I would be very interested in a project like this, so please let me
know what you all think!  Thanks!

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:54:42 +0100 (BST), Alan Horkan
<horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> 
> 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/
> 
> 
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