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
>
>
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