Hi all. It's been quite some time[0] since I last sent news about the Desktop Bookmark spec[1]. Just a quick recap: the spec is aimed at providing a uniform storage format for bookmarks inside file managers, file selection dialogs and, in general, applications that are *not* web browsers but keep bookmarks of resources accessible using a URI; it also aims at superseding the Recent Files Specification. It uses a "dialect" of the XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL) 1.0.
The discussion stopped last May, as I wanted to have a working implementation before pushing the spec. Now, as part of Project Ridley[2], GTK 2.10 will use this spec as the storage format for both the newly written recently used documents manager[3] and for accessing the FileChooser shortcuts. I'd like for this specification to become a fd.o supported spec, so that other projects might access the recent files/shortcuts; I'd also like that eventual further additions to the spec might be discussed here on XDG. +++ [0] Almost a year, actually: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-May/006862.html [1] Latest draft (forgive typos and bad english): http://devel.emmanuelebassi.net/papers/bookmark-spec.html [2] http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley [3] http://live.gnome.org/RecentFilesAndBookmarks Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
