http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-bookmark-spec
This is about standardizing and sharing file-management shortcuts - custom links that get listed in the side-pane of file-managers and file-dialogs - in Gnome also in places/bookmarks and nautilus/bookmarks. For KDE i already did some work on the KBookmark system to make this possible (The next step would be pointing KFilePlacesModel to the right path, and moving the list of "root"-items to a different storage - in KDE they are not hard-coded like in Gnome). Both desktops already have XBEL libraries for managing bookmarks, but there are still some open questions: 1) Location/Name of the file: $XDG_DATA_DIR/shortcuts.xbel as Emmanuele Bassi suggested? Perhaps renaming it to filemgr-shortcuts.xbel? 2) Change notification: KDE uses DBus signals for bookmark change notification. Would it be possible for Gnome/GTK to send a DBus signal after editing the bookmarks file? Or should we add a new option to KBookmarkManager to monitor the bookmark file on the file-system when dealing with shared bookmarks. 3) Icons: KDE allows to pick custom icons for bookmarks. Rather than full paths to icons it uses "named icons". I have a patch for KBookmark to store the icon-name in the metadata: <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org"; > <bookmark:icon name="folder-red" /> </metadata> This would add another (optional) attribute to the icon element: "name" (At the moment only "type" and "href" are in the spec) 4) Mime-Type File-management shortcuts don't really need the mime-type set, because they only point to folders (would always be "inode/directory" anyway). 5) Groups: File-management shortcuts can't have nested groups (both KDE and Gnome use "flat" lists for this purpose). I guess this should also be mentioned in the spec. Regards, Norbert _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
