Bug 138103

Summary: add a generic folksonomy facility for bookmarks
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Nick <nick>
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nick 2006-11-29 20:23:34 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

A hierarchical taxonomy for categorizing bookmarks is less than optimal. 
 
What about adding a native folksonomy facility to the local bookmarks.
 
Once this were in place, providing synchronization via ioslave between the local and any one (or more) of a number of on-line folksonomy-style bookmark sites (social/public or private, eg del.icio.us) would be a logical, fairly straight-forward next step.

If the folksonomy facility were made generic enough--a la an engine, it could be reused in many ways besides just html bookmarks--such as for tagging files (photos, music, etc)

(one option, a slight paradigm/use shift, is to consider that all files can be represented as a url in the file browser--thus the file browser could abstract the file by it's url and allow tags to be applied to the bookmark for indexing, searching, sorting)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-30 04:07:26 UTC 
We tried this for KDE4 and unfortunately everyone hated it. :( Maybe it wasn't implemented properly or maybe it was just a bad idea in the first place. The world may never know. Either way, sorry, I don't think we're going to go down that route again. :)