Difference between revisions of "Projects/PIM/Akonadi/Bookmarks"

Revision as of 00:01, 7 November 2008

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.

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 (stigi)

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)

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 :

which one of Akonadi/Nepomuk we use to export data to standard KDE classes
what is already done and what is to implement

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>
TO DO	Storage	Storage of screenshots	[mailto: <>]
DONE	Metadata	Tagging of akonadi items	Toma <toma@kde.org>
TO DO	Metadata	Strigi index and search	[mailto: <>]
TO DO	Libs	Port KBookmarks*	[mailto: <>]

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 ===Other ideas to discuss===
 * Only use tags instead of folders. Epiphany does this, mitigated reactions
-* Store it in mysql instead of files
 * 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)
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 {{FeatureInProgress|Storage|Define new attributes to store|xavier.vello@gmail.com|Xavier Vello|}}
 {{FeatureDone|Storage|Local file ressource (in kdepim)||}}
-{{FeatureTodo|Storage|Database ressource ?||}}
 {{FeatureInProgress|Storage|del.icio.us ressource (in playground)|robertknight@gmail.com|Robert Knight}}
 {{FeatureTodo|Storage|Storage of screenshots||}}