Dataengine to get bookmarks

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Sunday 06 December 2009 18:56:39 Jan Gerrit Marker wrote:
> I committed a dataengine to playground. This dataengine should get the 
> bookmarks of various browsers like Firefox, Konqueror or Opera. At the
>  moment  it only supports Firefox.
> 
> As some of you may know I added Firefox support to the bookmark runner for
>  KDE  SC 4.4. I noticed that it is easy to get the bookmarks of Konqueror
>  but hard to get Firefox's. So I thought it would be nice to get this data
>  easily. The dataengine uses the browsers as source. For every bookmark
>  there are two entries: num-name and num-url where num is replaced with an
>  integer value. Two equal integers mean that name and url are the ones of
>  the same bookmark.
> 
> This makes it easy to access the bookmarks of different browsers without 
> writing the code for getting them in every application. For example the 
> bookmark runner could use this to get the bookmarks very quick instead of 
> searching for them.
> I hope you like this idea and I'd be glade if you would comment it. I know 
> that this can't be added to KDE SC 4.4 so I hope I don't annoy you with
>  this.

It would be good if you got in contact with Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com>, 
he's working on bookmarks in Akonadi (which will likely be the canonical place to 
store bookmarks).

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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