KIOWidgets and KFile

[Mark]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, September 29, 2013 20:50:28 David Faure wrote:
> > This is clearly because kbookmarks was written as part of kio, and with
> > konqueror in mind. I guess the question is how generic we want KBookmarks
> > to  be, i.e. should it work without KIO altogether (at the expense of
> > losing automatic favicon integration -- can still be done by the caller
> > though, as long as the favicon doesn't change over time... as far as I
> can
> > see from the code).
>
> Maybe KBookmark could just be a small API backed by plugins?
>
> This would allow us to tackle bookmark provision "the other way round", so
> we
> could
>
> - use different providers, thereby hook into what's there on a given system
> - use Nepomuk as a backend (we use Nepomuk for browser bookmarks in Plasma
>   Active
> - hook into Chrome and Firefox bookmarks (at least read-only), we have code
>   for this in KRunner
> - it'd let us get away for KBookmarks itself with minimal dependencies
>
> I imagine KBookmark being a more service-like thing, rather than a
> mechanism
> to store and read bookmarks.
>
> Hi Sebas,

If i'm not mistaken, Dolphin is also using KBookmarks. Would your
suggestion keep it alive for dolphin? Or would that mean creating a plugin
that can read/write bookmarks to any file?

Cheers,
Mark
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