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Comment	>> I've been looking in to this with high hopes but unfortunately > >> limited success. :) > >> > >> Seems like now that I have TreanMarks installed and configured, every > >> time I launch Firefox, this shows up in my error log: > >> > >> Error: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -psn_0_9699329 > >> > >> Source File: > >> file:///Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js > >> Line: 655 > > > > I hope something didn't permanently break for you. :/ I have no idea > where that came from, either. I see where it gets logged in the > source, but I don't know why my extension could cause a command line > flag to be passed. I'll look into it. It looks like you're using > Mac. I have Windows, but it shouldn't matter with > platform-independent code... > > > >> > >> > >> I honestly have no clue where that's coming from, but it's definitely > >> related. The TreanMarks menu never gets past "Loading ..." > >> > >> > >> I'm attaching a 32x32 Trean icon (straight from the Tango icons). > > > > Thanks! I'll incorporate it next time I update. > > > >> > >> > >> Other comments: > >> > >> - I'm a bit iffy on the separate menu. But if this is how other > >> bookmarks extensions work I guess that's fine. It's certainly easier > >> to let the main Bookmarks menu alone. > > > > Yes, all of the other extensions I've seen make a separate menu. > (Shame that there's no simple way to make a bookmarks backend.) But > I think it would be possible to add the bookmarks onto the main > bookmark menu, either directly or in a submenu labeled Trean/Horde or > whatever. I want to do this, but just haven't yet. > > > >> > >> - For other ways to do it than xmlrpc struts, it depends what you > >> want to work with on the browser side. We have the beginnings of > >> RSS/Atom feeds for Trean; if this extension could use that data that > >> would definitely simplify things. Another possibility is to use json > >> instead of xml-rpc; that data could be requested directly from Trean > >> and would be much smaller than XML. And could just be eval'd (after > >> stripping a necessary security delimiter) on the javascript side. > > > > Yeah, I thought about json afterwards. Perhaps that would be much > more efficient and simple. It might also make sense to leverage the > existing RSS stuff, yeah. My only problem is wondering if it makes > sense to have separate download/upload mechanisms. (Though I think > RSS or Atom has a publication mechanism as well, which could be used > for uploading.) I should also note that the synchronization is > pretty primitive right now - limited to simply the existence of > bookmarks; it doesn't sync changes to URL and such. Perhaps another > protocol would better address more complete synchronization. What do > you think? > > > >> > >> - Can we have a configuration menu item right in the TreanMarks menu? > > > > I actually consciously decided against this to cut down on clutter at > the top of the menu. But I think you're right that it belongs there. > :-) > > > >> > >> - What do you think about calling the menu item "Horde" so that > >> perhaps in the future it could host other Horde features? Or should > >> we keep things separated into other extensions? > > > > Renaming it sounds fine, but I'm wondering if the menu would become > too confusing if other features were integrated. > > > >> > >> Btw, I'm using FF 2.0 - not sure if versions are an issue here. > >> > >> I'm excited again about this - hope to get some updates from you > >> soon. Thanks! > > > > [paste] > >> One other question - the extension seems to have a persistent cache of > >> credentials to log in to Horde. How is this handled? > > > > It's stored in the Password Manager (Tools -> Options -> Security -> > Show passwords), with a site of "treanmarksExtension." I stole the > idea from another online bookmarks extension. :-) > > > > [paste] > >> Last note for now - I committed several parts of your patch that made sense > >> independently (at least, enough sense). > > > > OK. I hope they're still useful if the bookmark transfer mechanism > is switched. :-) > > > > I'm fairly busy at the moment, but I'm hoping next week I can work on > these things more. In the meantime, I would appreciate peoples' > comments on RSS/JSON and perhaps the UI issues.
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