On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:15 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:50 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:08 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > > as we do with the icons (for the cache) and the MIME associations, we > > > (gtk+) can provide a small tool for installing the desktop places > > > bookmarks: > > > > > > gtk-bookmark-install sound-juicer.places > > > > > > this tool can do conflict resolution > > > > How? Surely we just want to stick with one default (unless the user or > > admin changes it) and stick with it? > > a plausible hierarchy could be: > > highest priority > user - (.local/share/places) > administrator - (/etc/xdg/share/places) > system - (/usr/share/places) > lowest priority
Yes, this seems very sane. > > > > Should "the desktop" > > > > ship a standard set of bookmarks > > > > > > this too could be doable for standard installations. another > > > interesting bit is the ability for system administrators to add > > > standard > > > places to internal resources for their users. > > > > This is quite a compelling use case: so what now - anyone want to start > > hacking on this? > > I'll be working on the file chooser format switch from .gtk-bookmarks to > a bookmark file; also, since the same format is used by gnome-panel and > nautilus, I'll work on them. GBookmarkFile can already load a bookmark > from $XDG_DATA_DIR (g_bookmark_file_load_from_data_dirs()), so we just > need to have a standard directory layout for the files. I'll also write > the installer/merger for GTK+ - unless someone beats me to it. :-) Thanks! Keep rocking Emmanuele :-) Richard. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
