Syncing Bookmarks via CVS

Alexander Kellett lypanov at kde.org
Tue Oct 21 08:34:58 BST 2003


On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I am wondering, if there is an easy way to sync bookmarks.xml files on 
> different machines. My initial idea was to put the bookmarks.xml in a 
> directory which is in CVS and let CVS do the work (I need to take care 
> somewhat that there are not too many collisions, but with many subdirectories 
> that should work reasonably well.
> 
> Now I found that when I do a 
> 
> 	ln -s ~/CVSed/bookmarks.xml .
> in
> 	~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror
> 
> Then konqeror removes the link and stores a simple file there again, when I 
> edit the bookmarks.

i'll add a simple hack to detect the existance of a symlink
and follow it before writing out the file. for 3.3 i'm aiming
to get some proper infrastructure for bookmark syncing.

> Is that done intentionally or is it just a bug?

neither - lack of a feature ;-)

mvg,
Alex




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