A-har, I have discovered Adam Hooper's guide to writing Epiphany extensions... Python, you say?
On 10/5/06, Sean Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From that history+bookmark integration wiki page, I particularly like > EmmanueleBassi's idea of using f-spot's time-slider widget. Especially > if Epiphany were to combine the time slider with thumbnails of the web > pages visited, in the same way that f-spot combines it with thumbnails > of images. > > The f-spot time-slider & thumbnail approach could be used to browse > history. Bookmarks would be history items that were 'tagged' or > 'dog-eared' or 'starred' as bookmarks. There should be a widget that > allows you to toggle between browsing all history (with some form of > emblem denoting bookmarked items) and browsing bookmarked items only. > > Beyond that... you could allow people to further sort the bookmarked > items by creating tags to tag items with, make tags as children of > other tags, and apply multiple tags to one item. Then display emblems > suggesting the applied tags on the thumbnails, and allow to browse > only certain tags, or combinations of tags, at a time. Much like > f-spot does. > > But f-spots tagging is a fairly complex and involved process that a > lot of people can't be bothered with. So the simpler, more generic but > less powerful tool of simply 'bookmarking' some history items should > be there for the lazy/people without much time. > > That sounds like a fun project, no? A SoC maybe? > > Here's a screenshot of f-spot so you can see what I'm talking about: > > http://f-spot.org/Image:Main-window.png > > You drag the slider on the timescale at the top, and the thumbnails > view (which is displaying images ordered chronologically) > automatically jumps to where the slider is. The stuff on the left is > user-created tags. Epiphany's bookmarks view just be a simplified > version of f-spot's main view. > > On 10/5/06, Sean Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What language is Epiphany written in and what toolkits and libraries > > does it use? Any guides or tutorials for interested developers? > > > > On 10/4/06, Reinout van Schouwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Sean, > > > > > > 2006/10/4, Sean Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > I wondered if any thought had been given among web browser developers > > > > and designers to ordering bookmarks chronologically (by the date the > > > > user created the bookmark), instead of by subject or tagging? > > > > > > Among web browser developers in general, I'm certain quite a bit of > > > thought has been given to the subject. :) As far as Epiphany is > > > concerned, please have a look at this page: > > > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/BookmarksHistoryIntegration > > > > > > It contains some (not very organized) ideas about how a future > > > history/bookmarks implementation might look like. Unfortunately, we're > > > rather short on developer manpower and this is not very concrete yet. > > > > > > > hierarchical sorting, but I still find that my list of bookmarks is > > > > usually a mess, and that aside from a handful on the toolbar, I don't > > > > really use bookmarks. > > > > > > Are you talking about the bookmarks in the bookmark editor window, or > > > in the Bookmarks menu? Generally, the most efficient way to work with > > > bookmarks in Epiphany is to use the address bar to find them by name > > > or by topic. Just type a few letters of the bookmark's name or of one > > > of its topics and you'll see a dropdown list of possibilities. It > > > allows very fast bookmark selection. > > > > > > Thanks for your feedback, and for using Epiphany! =) > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > -- > > > Reinout van Schouwen > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Reinout van Schouwen > > > _______________________________________________ > > > epiphany-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
