wiki:kde/bookmarks

KDE4 Bookmarks

see http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/File_Management#File_System_Navigation

In KDE4, there is the distinction between (Internet-)Bookmarks and (File-)Places.

Unfortunally, at least in KDE-4.3.1 they don't integrate very well.

Typ file used by
Places share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml and .local/share/user-places.xbel KDE4 file open and save dialogs
File bookmarks share/apps/kfile/bookmarks.xml KDE4 file open and save dialogs (if enabled)
Konqueror bookmarks share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml Konqueror

To use the file places or file bookmarks with Konqueror, the File Open dialog must be used. They are not visible as Konqueror Bookmarks. This is confusing.

System Global Bookmarks (Places)

Desktop bookmarks are specified by freedesktop.org in http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-bookmark-spec

Unfortunately this is only partly implemented in KDE 4.3.1.

More precisely, reading global bookmarks from $XDG_DATA_DIR/desktop-bookmarks/*.xbel is not supported. Also /usr/share/kde4/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml, /etc/xdg/places.xbel, /etc/xdg/system-places.xbel and /etc/xdg/user-places.xbel are ignored.

If this functionality should be added, the file seems to be to correct place: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kfile/kfileplacessharedbookmarks.cpp?view=markup (http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kfile/html/kfileplacessharedbookmarks_8cpp.html)

Therefore there is currently not mechanism for system global bookmarks.

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