Description of problem: Firefox now provides Fedora related bookmarks by default which is great for a default browser except that it isnt the only browser shipped in FC (perhaps even in Fedora Extras) and we need to provide the same bookmarks in all the browsers included in them - seamonkey, ephiphany, konqueror, lynx etc Actual results: Fedora bookmarks only present in Firefox Expected results: Same bookmarks in all browsers included in the distribution Additional info: Perhaps a shared configuration mechanism makes sense to stay in sync if we had to modify bookmarks again in the future.
One problem is that all of them store their bookmarks in different formats and with different requirements.
If all browser can read file URLs, then a central way to do this is to store at least a *brief* default main page under /usr (wherever is appropriate), that provides links to both an offline version of some useful links, and the live on line version. The default page that is 20+ pages of release notes that is used currently in firefox is dreadfully slow at appearing. The first user impression should be: This operating system / web browser is so fast ! While it would be good to default to the on disk mini web store, a second spot should probably be a single bookmark in a personal tooolbar folder for browsers that support it or in the bookmarks list for those that don't. (It's painful to need to re-arange the default toolbar stuff to move the defaults around so that you can fit your *personal* stuff in.)
This is something that should have bugs filed against each offending package. fedora-bookmarks exist and packages can and should use it. Firefox, Epiphany, and I think Seamonkey already do. Firefox installs a symlink to the system bookmarks. Epiphany is patched so that it "imports" the system bookmarks on first run. I believe one of those approaches will work for most other browsers. If not, we might want to look into a Netscape Bookmarks format -> XBEL format converter (which is the other popular format AFAICT). I don't think this is a useful bug to leave around, so closing, but please go ahead and open bugs for individual packages.
really closing per comment #3