Re: [rox-devel] Bookmarks ?

[Francesco B. <fbo...@ga...>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:30:41PM -0500, Greg Spath wrote:
> 
> 
> That's a neat idea (the symlink folder).  That is, after all, the
> elegance of ROX-Filer.	Everything should be easily done with the file
> system itself, right?
> 
Right. 

> Perhaps this is all ROX should do for bookmarks.  Put them in a
> ~/Choices/Bookmarks folder (or file...as is done with globicons), and
> then ROX could simply use what is in that to create a fly-out menu, or
> simply open that directory from a context menu.   This has the added
> benefit of using your file system, so hierarchies of bookmarks, etc,
> are already taken care of.  All that is really needed is a context menu
> item added to the filer that 'sends' a selected item (or items) to the
> bookmarks folder.  Ok...with that said...you really don't need
> bookmarks in ROX-Filer at all!!!  Just write a little ROX-App that
> creates symlinks in the defined folder, and put that app in your
> ~/Choices/SendTo folder.  Easily done in sh, bash, perl, etc.
>
Interesting. I never used the  SentTo folder, but I get the idea.
One would also need a way to open the bookmark folder, but putting it
 on the panel (as I do) should do the trick. 
 
> With all that said, I wouldn't really use this feature.  Everything I
> frequently use is already put somewhere where I can get to it quickly. 

But I ran out of 'somewhere' space, so I decided to get a bit more organised 
and created a 'bookmark' folder.

> What WOULD be nice, however, is a way for ROX to remember, say, the
> last 10 things that were opened, and symlink them in 'bookmarks'
> folder, or place them in a fly-out context menu, or best yet, both. 
> This isn't easily done through scripting, so DOES belong in the filer
> itself.  Bookmarks, however, I believe are easily accomplished without
> putting them  into the ROX-Filer code itself.
> 
This would be nice, also. But 'last used' and 'most used' sets are not
the same thing, and 'most used' is a bit tricky to implement without
user help.

> I guess my thing is I like to extend ROX through scripting, so I'd
> prefer hooks into the filer to add or remove features at will as
> opposed to putting it all in the filer itself.
> 
> comments?
> 

You may be right.
It depends on how much 'bookmarks' is considered a 'core feature' of the
filer (you don't, I [sometime] do). Others ?

Ciao
-- 
FB