Panel plugin to display appfinder bookmarks

André Miranda andre42m at gmail.com
Sat Sep 7 03:18:41 CEST 2019


As long as migration code (i.e. move appfinder's bookmarks to the shared 
list and delete that file) is provided, I see no problem.

On 05/09/2019 09:56, Nandakumar Edamana wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply. Yes, using appfinder's configuration for outside 
> purposes seems a bad idea, but what if the case is reverse? I mean, 
> setting up a shared 'favorite apps' list and making appfinder as well 
> as this proposed plugin use it?
>
> On 9/5/19 6:03 PM, André Miranda wrote:
>> I don't think so, because bookmarks are saved in 
>> ~/.config/xfce4/appfinder/bookmarks and that is very app specific, 
>> not meant to be shared.
>> You can hack panel's applicationsmenu-plugin or create one from 
>> scratch, but IMO reading from that file is far from great, something 
>> standardized would be better (e.g. ~/config/xfce4/bookmarks or 
>> storing them in xfconf channel).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andre Miranda
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 5:08 AM Nandakumar Edamana 
>> <nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in <mailto:nandakumar at nandakumar.co.in>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     Is there a panel plugin that automatically lists bookmarks
>>     created using
>>     appfinder? If no, what are your thoughts on creating one? I'm
>>     interested
>>     to hack.
>>
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