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 (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)
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
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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