kbookmarkmerger is a program for merging a given set of bookmarks into the user's set of bookmarks; if
the user doesn't have any bookmarks created yet, a new bookmark list is created and the given bookmarks
are inserted into it. While doing this, kbookmarkmerger keeps track of which files were merged in a
previous run already, so no bookmark will get installed to the user's bookmarks more than once.
The traditionally used approach to achieve something like this was to use carefully crafted skeleton home
directories when creating a new user account, to provide the user with a standard set of bookmarks. The
problem with this approach is that after the user account has been created, no new bookmarks can be
propagated.
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. Distributors might find it useful
as well, 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.
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. The files in the given directory should be valid XBEL files.