Bug 138103 - add a generic folksonomy facility for bookmarks
Summary: add a generic folksonomy facility for bookmarks
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kde
Classification: I don't know
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2006-11-29 20:23 UTC by Nick
Modified: 2020-09-30 04:07 UTC (History)
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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. :)