292550 - Make Bookmarks Spotlight-friendly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[Manfred Schubert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050325 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050325 Camino/0.8+

Make the Camino bookmarks Spotlight friendly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the bookmarks view in Camino
2. Enter something from this view as search term into the Spotlight thing at the
top right of the screen
Actual Results:  
Spotlight does not fiend any bookmarks of Camino.

Expected Results:  
Spotlight should fiend the Camino bookmark. Double-clicking the result in the
Spotlight results window should open the bookmark in Camino.

Comment 1

[Jasper]

Why would you want to find your bookmarks using spotlight while you can do it
within camino at a greater speed?

Comment 2

[Manfred Schubert]

I guess the number one reason ist that I have forgotten that I bookmarked something. Let's say I want to 
see what my computer knows about a certain topic, then it should show bookmarks as well.

Another reason are smart folders. Let's say I'm investigation a certain topic for a paper and make a smart 
folder about it. That smart folder shows then everything like texts I've written, pictures and the bookmarks 
I made for the research of the topic.

Comment 3

[Jasper]

Ha Manfred those are som good points, was to lazy to actually think it about it
myself :) It shouldn't be hard to do this right.

Right now our cookies file is parsed, I wonder if we can block that in some way?

Comment 4

[Terence Tan]

I know we're slightly veering off-topic here: but I think it would be much
better if Spotlight indexed the browser cache and history. So if I remember
seeing something a few days or weeks ago, Spotlight will find it. Is this worth
filing a bug over?

Comment 5

[Jasper]

Well smae quetsion goes again, in that situation you can just do a search within
Camino!

Comment 6

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

for spotlight to be able to see bookmarks or history, each bookmark would have
to be a separate file. we'd have to mirror the plist into a cached directory
that spotlight could index, which could be really inefficient with a lot of
bookmarks and a lot of history.

note that safari puts this into ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari with a flat
list of all your bookmarks.

I guess we could do this. *shrug*

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

landed. we now write out the files into ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Camino
whenever we write the bookmarks file.

It really works ;)

Comment 8

[Manfred Schubert]

Works great indeed. Thanks!