> > I also added a 'Package' tile for beagle-search. At the moment it > > doesn't display much extra, but it can easily be configured to show > > dependencies and the like. I was thinking about adding an 'Install' > > option in the context menu any thoughts on that? > > A package tile really only makes sense if you can install them from the > UI. This is one of those things that is so different from distro to > distro that I'm not sure we can effectively do this ourselves. Plus, it > means additional space being used up in the main UI area. I think just > leaving them in the file tile is probably the best course right now.
I am not sure how beagle-search tile handles different file types, but different files can have different display styles and actions. Pictures => maybe show the width/height, any jpeg/exif comments, digikam/fspot tags Media => duration,artist,etc PDF/office docs => number of pagers, author etc. (and on similar lines) deb,ebuild,rpm Packages => version, description, size, source url etc. IMO, it would be helpful to have a package tile which can specifically look for these information. But before that, all the package filters needs to have a common base (like filterimage) so that they have similar information under similar proprety names. But installing packages is different on different distros is different, and since a lot of packages lying around might be actually the installed ones, I think attaching the normal file actions to it should be ok and the expected actions. Maybe subclass from TileFile.cs (ok at this point I am talking off nowhere, have no clue how the tiles code look like). Just my 2 cents, - dBera _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers