177374 - Chimera should use - and only use - Mac OS X's native Favorites folder(s)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, enhancement)

Description

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Since Mac OS 8.5, there has been a system-wide Favorites folder, accessible from
the Apple menu and now, in X, from the Finder toolbar. Even though the open and
save dialogs give you quite easy access to this folder, it is hardly really used
in applications.

As a truly native Mac OS X browser that will most likely never get ported to any
other platform, Chimera has the opportunity to change this, by using the
Favorites folder instead of its own proprietary bookmarks format for managing
the hotlist.

I never saw the point in that own format anyways: there already exists an XML
language for bookmarks ( http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/ ), and no
other browser supports Chimera's format, rendering it quite pointless.

If Chimera were to use the OS X Favorites folder though, and supplied methods
for im- and exporting the internet part of that folder from / to other browsers'
formats, that would let you open favorites from within the Finder, and maybe
make use of them in other applications as well.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

I think there is sufficient benefit to retaining the traditional Bookmarks menu.
The Finder's Favorites folder can store files, aliases, etc. The Bookmarks menu
can hold URL's. They're two different things.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Putting lots of url files in the Favorites folder would make reading bookmarks
really slow, if you have lots of them. I'm going to WONTFIX this (but I'll take
a look at that XML bookmarks format).

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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