This page is about the bookmarks system refactoring for 4.3 using Akonadi / Nepomuk. It's mostly Konqueror-centric, but we must keep in mind the bookmarks system is used by many applications. Comments and ideas are welcome.

Contents 1 General picture 1.1 Current state of bookmarks 1.2 Desired features 1.3 Other ideas to discuss 2 Implementation 2.1 Potential issues 2.2 Feature matrix

General picture

Current state of bookmarks

• Currently provided classes : KBookmark, KBookmarkGroup, KBookmarksManager and others.
• Many apps use it : Konqueror, Konsole, Kate, Okular, ... need to keep backwards compatibility.
• Bookmarks are stored in a per-application XBEL file, parsed by KBookmarksManager.

Desired features

• Sync with online services / other sources
• Rating / tagging / other metadata
• Site snapshots storage
• Search by tag / metadata
• Full text indexing (Strigi)

Other ideas to discuss

• Only use tags instead of folders. Epiphany does this, mitigated reactions
• Merge bookmarks and history (to get history tagging / rating) : a bookmark may be a properly tagged history entry
• Ability to store a page (like the scrapbook firefox plugin)
  • I suggest to do this using Basket Note Pads http://basket.kde.org/ Zeroheure 09:01, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
  • why not use existing archive web page extension Llukas 14:11, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Implementation

The consensus seems to be :

• Akonadi to handle storage and sync
• Nepomuk to handle tagging / metadata
• reuse and extend existing kdelibs/kio API

We need to define :

• the new properties to add to bookmarks
• what is already done and what is to implement

Potential issues

• KBookmark* extend QDom while Akonadi works by fetching individual items. Should we emulate a QDom or create new classes ? As the Akonadi implementation will still use bookmarks.xml, the two implementations may be used on the same data.
• A lot of Akonadi KDE api and agents are in kdepimlibs on which kdelibs can't depend.

Feature matrix

Status	Category	Description	Contact
IN PROGRESS	Storage	Define new attributes to store	Xavier Vello <xavier.vello@gmail.com>
DONE	Storage	Local file ressource (in kdepim)	[mailto: <>]
IN PROGRESS	Storage	del.icio.us ressource (in playground)	Robert Knight <robertknight@gmail.com>
TODO	Storage	Storage of screenshots	[mailto: <>]
DONE	Metadata	Tagging of akonadi items	Toma <toma@kde.org>
TODO	Metadata	Strigi index and search	[mailto: <>]
TODO	Libs	Port KBookmarks*	[mailto: <>]