affects midori affects debian done Christian, I forgot to forward this bug so I'm adding the initial report. If anything is missing, feel free to contact me or Francesco for more information.
On mar., 2011-09-27 at 00:05 +0200, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > Package: midori > Version: 0.4.0-2 > Severity: important > > Hi! > Thanks for maintaining Midori in Debian. > > I am currently a user of the Galeon web browser, but I am trying Midori > out to see if it fits my needs as my new primary browser... > > One of the first things I tried to do was importing my bookmarks from > Galeon into Midori. > Something went definitely wrong, despite the several tests I performed. > > Let me explain what I did. > I selected Import Bookmarks from the File menu (in the menubar) and > chose "Import from XBEL or HTML file" as Application and "Toplevel folder" > as destination Folder. After that, I clicked on the "Import bookmarks" > button and selected ~/.galeon/bookmarks.xbel > > I expected to see my fairly large tree of bookmarks in the sidepanel > (which I had previously activated) and in the Bookmarks menu. > > Nothing is shown instead. Nothing is visible in the sidepanel, nothing > in the Bookmarks menu (a grayed out "Empty" string is shown). > > I thought that the import operation failed, but then noticed that > ~/.config/midori/bookmarks.db is 251904 bytes long. > I tried searching for a string in the sidepanel, and, surprise! Here are > a number of bookmarks matching the searched string! > > It really seems that bookmarks can be imported from XBEL format, but > fail to be shown after the import operation. :-( > Please note that, if I manually create a new bookmark or bookmark folder > from inside Midori, this is correctly shown in both the sidepanel and the > Bookmarks menu. > > I think that what I found is a bug. > Please fix it and/or forward the report upstream. > > Thanks for your time. > > On sam., 2011-11-26 at 23:47 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:13:11 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > > [...] > > Please let me know if you need more information. > > Thanks again for your time. > > I checked midori/0.4.2-1 and this bug seems to still be unfixed. > > Once again, if you need more information, please let me know. > Otherwise, please fix the bug and/or forward the report upstream. > > Thanks for your time. > I think it might help to provide a sample bookmarks.xbel with a minimal test case. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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