Re: We need to improve the default galeon bookmarks file

El lun, 11-11-2002 a las 19:22, MArk Finlay escribió:
> I was playing around with the galeon bookmarks that come as default with
> galeon 1.3 and I've attached the resulting file. The main changes are:
> 

Thank you! The current default bookmark file is just useless.

> 1. removed gnome and galeon from the toolbar - they really don't need to
> be there and just look confusing.

Agreed.

> 2. Moved bookmarklets from sample smart bookmarks to the toolbar so that
> they are easily reachable.

Ok

> 3. Moved the bookmark link to the right hand side of the toolbar.

I'd leave it at the left, to be in the same place as in
Netscape/Mozilla.

> 4. Updated the gnome folder of the bookmarks
> 5. Added a separator to add distinction to the bookmarks menus and the
> myportal: page.
> 6. Moved new bookmarks to the top of the list so that they are at the
> top of the menu and the myportal: page.

Ok.

> 
> I think that it would be cool to flesh out the default bookmarks file
> with good amount of open source links, but I want to run these ideas by
> you before i go and do any actual "work" on it.

There is a bug about this, but I don't remember the number and bugzilla
seems to be down now. It would be great if you attached this file (and
comments) to that bug.

> 
> ps. also - it would be cool if the properties window in the bookmark
> editor could be centered on the bookmark editor window. I'm not a big
> coder, otherwise i'd attach a patch ;)

> pps. I have been editing the bookmarks through galeon - and the
> bookmarks.xbel file seems to have a slightly different format to the
> default-bookmarks.xbel file - how hard is it to convert between them? i
> really hate editing xml manually...

The default bookmarks file is just a XBEL file... I don't know what you
mean. What differences are you talking about? Tried reneming the
attached bookmark file as default-bookmarks.xbel?

> 
> ppps. Also, is there any plans to update the myportal page? the format
> is starting to look a bit dated - it would be really cool if it had a
> really strong visual impact when someone first starts galeon2. Would ppl
> be open to reviewing patches to the myportal page?

Sure. 

-- 
Ricardo Fernández Pascual
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Murcia. España.



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