Gtk bookmarks location

[Nick Schermer]

Since we're not going to change the gtk settings dialog, its better to
mimic its behavior.

Nick


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Foresight <mark at foresightlinux.org> wrote:

>  On Sun Jan  5 00:25:25 2014 Alistair Buxton <a.j.buxton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It's come to my attention that recent versions of both gtk2 and gtk3
> > use a different file for gtk bookmarks.
> >
> > First this file is checked:
> >    filename = g_build_filename (g_get_user_config_dir (), "gtk-3.0",
> > "bookmarks", NULL);
> >
> > If it doesn't exist or some other problem, the old file location is
> > checked:  filename = g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir (),
> > ".gtk-bookmarks", NULL);
> >
> > If the bookmarks are loaded from the legacy file, they should be
> > written to the new file.
> >
> > This is the reason why thunar bookmarks don't show up in file
> > requesters "sometimes".
> >
> > I intend to fix this in thunar and places plugin. Does anything else
> > xfce-related use these bookmarks?
> >
> > I intend to fix this in the following way:
> >
> > 1. Update all apps to behave exactly like they do now, except to use
> > the new file instead of the legacy one.
> > 2. Add an extra check to load from the legacy file if the new file is
> > missing, but not change anything else, so that the new file is still
> > what is watched for changes, and where bookmarks are saved to.
> >
> > This means the user's bookmarks will get copied into the new location
> > when one of the following happens:
> >
> > 1. Open a Gtk file requester.
> > 2. Add or delete a bookmark in thunar.
>
> But that would mean that if zyou already used something that created the
> new file without checking for the old one all your old bookmarks won't be
> migrated, because some stupid gtk3 program already created the new file.
> I don't have a better idea though.
>
> > --
> > Alistair Buxton
> > a.j.buxton at gmail.com
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