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💖 KBOOKMARKMERGER 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for kbookmarkmerger, which lives in section 1 of the manual pages. it's giving "the friend who quietly handles all your bookmarks for you" energy and honestly? we're obsessed. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kbookmarkmerger — a whole program whose entire job is merging a given set of bookmarks into the user's list of bookmarks. that's it. that's the gig. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kbookmarkmerger {directory}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, kbookmarkmerger merges a given set of bookmarks into the user's set of bookmarks. and if the user doesn't have any bookmarks created yet? no stress — a brand new bookmark list gets created and the given bookmarks get inserted into it. slay. ✨

and the way it does this is lowkey genius: while merging, kbookmarkmerger keeps track of which files were merged in a previous run already, so no bookmark will ever get installed to the user's bookmarks more than once. periodt, no duplicates, we don't do that here. 💅

now, the traditionally used approach to achieve something like this was to use carefully crafted skeleton home directories when creating a new user account, so the user would get a standard set of bookmarks. and like… the problem with that approach is that after the user account has been created, no new bookmarks can be propagated. dead end. 🙈

so this mechanism is useful for system administrators who want to propagate a bookmark pointing to a certain document — for instance, important notes about the system — to all users. and distributors might find it useful too! for instance, by augmenting the software packages they supply with bookmark files which kbookmarkmerger merges into the user's bookmark list when the package is installed. that way, documentation shipped with a software package is easily and visibly accessible right after the package has been installed. main character energy for documentation fr fr. 📚

the only parameter required by kbookmarkmerger is the name of a directory which shall be scanned for bookmark files. all files in the given directory will be considered for being merged into the user's setup. and heads up bestie — the files in the given directory should be valid XBEL files. 💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

joe@hal9000:~> kbookmarkmerger /usr/local/extra-bookmarks

this merges all bookmark files stored in /usr/local/extra-bookmarks into joe's list of bookmarks. joe is thriving, we love that for him. 🫶

🧚 STANDARDS 🧚

  • XBEL specification[2]

😭 RESTRICTIONS 😭

okay so this part matters, bestie, don't skip it!!

when determining whether a given bookmark file has been merged into the user's bookmarks already or not, kbookmarkmerger merely looks at the filename of the bookmark file — the contents are not checked at all. 💀 which means: changing a bookmark file which was already merged into a user's bookmarks will not trigger merging it once again. it just won't. the file's name is the vibe check and nothing else gets inspected.

also note that in case a user modifies a bookmark which was merged into his setup, the original bookmark file will be left unmodified. your edits stay yours, the source file stays pristine. 💜

💅 AUTHOR 💅

Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org>

Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org>

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🍓 NOTES 🍓

  1. Konqueror manual help:/konqueror/index.html
  2. XBEL specification http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/

and that's the whole thing, bestie! 🎀 this was KDE Applications Applications, dated 2016-11-07 — so yeah, it's an icon, it's a legend, and it is the moment. now go merge those bookmarks responsibly. 💖✨🌸🦋

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