Comments on: Bookmarks with folders

By: ReinoutS

ReinoutS — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:45:32 +0000

@Jeff: that’s because Epiphany doesn’t have folders, but tags.
However an intelligent algorithm will create submenu divisions in the Bookmarks menu based on matching topics…

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:55:53 +0000

Tags are annoying. There is no way (I’ve found) to have subfolders of folders in epiphany. With 3000+ bookmarks this is annoying

By: David Dallet

David Dallet — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:30:54 +0000

I’m sorry to don’t really answer to your question but I’d just say I share bochecha’s point of view.

After it really depends on what you want to do, so…

Good luck

David

By: bochecha

bochecha — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:07:51 +0000

Sorry, no answer about a particular implementation, but why using folders ?

for example, Epiphany uses tags for its bookmarks, which is way superior to hierarchical organisation in my opinion.

Just my 2 cents…

By: Jeff Schroeder

Jeff Schroeder — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:47:53 +0000

Why use XML at all? Try yaml, it is sooo much easier. Here is a brief example

—

Planets:
– name: planet gnome
descrip: awesome blog site
url: http://planet.gnome.org

– name: planet freedesktop
descrip: cross desktop magical fairydust
url: http://planet.freedesktop.org

News:
– name: OSNews
descrip: not just operating systems
url: http://www.osnews.com

– name: CNN
descrip: damned lies
url: http://www.cnn.com
…

By: Neil J. Patel

Neil J. Patel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:42:06 +0000

Hi,
You could use a structure like the freedesktop menus specfication, where you have:

- a .menu xml file which describes which .desktop files go into which categories (you can have overlap).
- .directory key-files which describe a category
- .desktop key-file describing the item.

A simpler approach, using the same idea is:

Each bookmark file (which is a key-file), has a ‘Category’ key, which is a csv of categories/folders. The folders themselves can be defined by a .directory key-file, where it’s category could be Root, or another directory name (for sub-sub-folders).

Okay, so it sounds OTT, but it won’t be hard _that_ hard to implement .

/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/desktop-directories
/etc/xdg/menus

will provide some examples.

- Neil

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By: Jonh Wendell

Jonh Wendell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:28:19 +0000

Hi, Kurt. Yes, it could be. But I’m asking for an already implemented solution. For instance, GLib has GBookmarkFile API, but it doesn’t support folders hierarchy .

By: Kurt McKee

Kurt McKee — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:18:51 +0000

I’m not sure what your particular application is, but perhaps XBEL might be a good format to use?