[Zope] RFC: ZMI Bookmarks

[Evan Simpson]

Just the other day, I hacked up an implementation of transient ZMI 
bookmarks.  It puts an icon next to an object's breadcrumb path that 
stuffs the path into a session variable, then uses javascript to reload 
the menu pane.  If there are any bookmarks in the session variable, they 
are listed below the folder tree in the menu pane as links to 
manage_workspace of that path.

So, you click on the little add-a-bookmark icon and a bookmark appears 
under the folder tree.  I showed it to my designer/wife, and she loved 
it.  Then I explained that the bookmarks are kept in a session, so they 
go *poof* when you restart Zope or your browser.  She said "so, make 
them permanent".

Easier said than done, of course.  As soon as I started down that path, 
I got analysis paralysis thinking about bookmark sets, user properties, 
special bookmark containers, etc, etc.

Now, I'm hoping that someone on the list has a clever idea for making 
these bookmarks persist, in a usefully Zopish way, that doesn't involve 
dragging in whole other frameworks (i.e. a third-party User Folder 
implementation).  Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Evan @ 4-am