On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, A. Walton<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:11 AM, nf2<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sergey >> Udaltsov<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There is one closely related issue - the bookmarking mechanism, used >>> in these dialogs, should be standardized as well. >> >> There actually is a spec for this and I implemented it for KDE. It >> just hasen't been implemented by GTK yet. AFAIK the problem is the >> lack of an appropriate XML parser in the stack below GTK and GLIB >> (GIO). > > Would that be GMarkup and the corresponding GBookmarkFile? It > certainly sounds like it... We don't currently use it for storing > "Places', but we have a bug(s?) open towards moving that direction[1]. As far as i remember the problem with GBookmarkFile is that it does not preserve "private" metadata nodes which are needed by KDE (see the example below). Preserving those metadata nodes would probably require a DOM parser, which is not available inside GLib. Parhaps the GBookmarkFile implementation should become a dlopened plugin which links something like libxml2, but i don't know if that would be possible. -------- ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel --------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE xbel> <xbel xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks"; xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"; xmlns:kdepriv="http://www.kde.org/kdepriv"; > <bookmark href="file:///bigtemp" > <title>bigtemp</title> <info> <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org"; > <bookmark:icon name="inode-directory" /> </metadata> <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org"; > <ID>1248471539/0</ID> </metadata> </info> </bookmark> </xbel> ------------------------------------------------------------- There seems to be another related bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556040 Cheers, Norbert _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
