On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> Am Samstag, 25. März 2006 14:14 schrieb Martin Vermeer:

...
 
> > How does this idea feel?
> 
> Very good from an implementation point of view (of course nothing for 1.4 
> because of file format change). Not so good from a semantic point of 
> view: IMHO Bookmarks are not really part of a document, but of the 
> session (like cursor positions etc). In particular I would not want to 
> share bookmarks together with documents. Imagine for example multiple 
> authors working on a book under version control. Everybody has probably 
> different bookmarks, and they would interfere with each other.

But how persistent should bookmarks be then?

In your scenario, if you save your bookmarks in the session, send the
doc off and receive it back modified, your bookmarks will load to the
wrong locations in the document. 

Persistence over save/load isn't really compatible with per-user
bookmarks.

- Martin

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