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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    RE: Konqueror (Bookmarks)
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       1999-11-25 13:31:05
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Hi,

There a lot of good ideas here.

An easy starting point I can see would be to use the usual KDEDIR(S) stuff
for bookmarks (this would allow the "read-only corporate bookmarks").
i.e. currently it only reads them from ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/bookmarks
I should make konqueror read them from $KDEDIR(at any
level)/share/apps/kfm/bookmarks
as well, in read-only mode.

About copying bookmarks to a floppy, you can easily do an edit bookmarks
(which open
a file manager window to the (personal) bookmarks directory) and copy the
files/dirs from there
(as is, or creating an archive, ...). It's just usual file copying stuff, so
I don't 
think it's too difficult for the user.

I'm not sure I see the point in temporary bookmarks. We have the history
(which does temporary
storage of urls) and bookmarks... Remember, keep it simple :-)


-- 
David Faure 
faure@kde.org - KDE developer 
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake 
david.faure@cramer.co.uk - Cramer Systems 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Knoll [mailto:knoll@mpi-hd.mpg.de]
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 1:17 PM
To: kfm-devel@kde.org
Subject: Fwd: Konqueror


Hi Lars - Sorry if this isn't the correct way to pass on suggestions for
Konqueror development but I can't seem to find an official path.

I don't know much about Konqueror except that it's a browser, so I'll pass
on a few thoughts generated from using Netscape.

In a multi-user environment it would be highly useful if the bookmarks
system could include other bookmark sections (e.g. from other users,
corporate-level, department level) etc.
One thought would be to have the ability to specify sections / entries in a
bookmark file as exportable and then whether importing users have
read-only/read-write access - could even get fancy by being able to specify
which users/groups etc could import the section. The importing bookmark file
could the create a slot to hold the imported bookmarks (say from
user/directory/bookmark/file:section) - you'd have to take into
consideration that the source bookmark file may be unavailable (nfs site
down etc.) and just show the section with a 'currently unavailable' message.
It would also be handy to be able to create a default bookmark file so that
any new user created gets this set of bookmarks - I'm thinking corporate use
here!
Another handy feature regarding the import concept would be to be able to
generate a free-standing section which could be held on floppy and then
imported on other systems - I'd like to be able to easily transfer my
personal bookmarks from my machine at work to my home beast.

How about a temporary bookmarks file, valid for the current session only -
when you are surfing you frequently find sites that you may want to come
back to during this session but don't want the bother of addding and
deleting them from the 'live' bookmarks. Then you'd have to provide a
facility to transfer temporary bookmarks to live bookmarks. It would also be
useful if the last temporary bookmark file was available for re-load in the
next session.

A lot of rambling but these features aren't available via Netscape so they
may be of interest.

Cheers - Alan Prescott

ajp@fudokai.org.uk

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