On 03/05/2017 12:56 PM, David Faure wrote:

> user-places.xbel is a shared freedesktop.org standard.
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-bookmark-spec/

You have much more first-hand knowledge of such matters than I do, and I 
in no way dispute any of your claims.

That being said, in my defense, I did some research with all due 
diligence prior to arriving at my decision earlier today.  I found 
desktop-bookmark-spec but there is no mention of user-places.xbel itself 
in the spec.

Searching for user-places.xbel on Google, all fingers point to KDE, and 
to you.  I couldn't find any clear acknowledgment that GNOME reads this 
file, but I did find advice for users migrating from KDE to GNOME to 
copy user-places.xbel to some other location for use with GNOME.  The 
file format is universal, but the name and location of the file seems to 
be much less certain, based on what my searches returned.

I felt it was faster to just go a different route than to run first-hand 
experiments with different desktops to prove what is universal and what 
isn't.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

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