On 10/29/06, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would say your description is indeed what we intend to do.
So there is the plan I have in mind for the media player.
We have CollectionKit based on Address Book
to handle organization of items with attributes.
All items can be arbitrarily grouped, just as playlist in iTunes.
There is a BookmarKit built on top of it for shared bookmarks.
Since CollectionKit only handle items with attributes,
not any file it may refer to,
I plan to have a OrganizationKit on top of CollectionKit
to handle files associated with items.
For example, in iTunes, music/video files are referred by items,
and in iPhoto, digital images are referred by items.
Changing attributes in item may changing the location of files.
In the end, you can organize files as easy as iTunes or iPhoto.
If such information from CollectionKit or OrganizationKit is shared,
any other application can access it.
I had a prototype of media player in svn, called Babbler.
It is based on gstreamer and is only barely usable.
But the idea is that it can access the collection of music files
organized by CollectionKit or OrganizationKit and play it.
Again, a CD importer application can also put new music into
the same collection. So does the CD burner to pick any music file
to burn.
They all surround a shared collection.
If you have a collection of music and a collection of photos,
because they all organized with OrganizationKit,
a CD burner can access them in the same way,
except the type of files is different.
Then it can decide how to burn them based on file types.
In another word, you can have a single CD burner to burn
both music and pictures.
That's pretty much all I have in mind now.
Yen-Ju
So, would a collection of say, photos, have a representation as a filesystem object?
I think if the collection could be represented as a file system object, you could open the whole collection with a single/doube click or choose a service to open it with.
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Happy day
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Brian
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