On 13 May 2007, at 18:13, Jesse Ross wrote: >> How do users drag-and-drop their files/objects if there is no >> subdirectories ? > > They should just be able to drag and drop files to wherever they need > them within a Project, right?
Right. Projects are spacial, so dragging and dropping makes sense in their context. >> If they download a file from web browser, where does this file goes ? > > Perhaps the user could just open an Object Manager, and type in the > tag "download"? It seems like we should pre-tag things that the user > downloads. Any other thoughts? Downloads should be auto-tagged with the fact that they are a web download, the date on which they were downloaded, and the site of origin. If they were downloaded from a link, they would also have the link text as another tag. >> Where should we put the bookmark ? Or we don't have bookmark >> anymore ? > > Bookmarks for what? The browser? Bookmarks for the browser are just URLs with a name tag, and possibly the type set to bookmark. I don't actually use bookmarks anymore; I just drag the link to my desktop. I can imagine on Étoilé I would have a 'browsing' project, where I would keep a load of links and a web view. >> How does it look like with icon view ? > > Just like OS X with an icon view, using previews of images/videos > wherever possible. It's difficult to get this right though. Windows and OS X both do it the wrong way; run the preview object in the main thread and allow it to lock up the entire window. >> The first thing users saw is "all" of his files/objects. >> It will be very very big if it includes everything, even under >> subdirectories. > > Agreed, that would be a bad idea -- it would get very, very big. > Default view should maybe be "All file types modified today", rather > than all dates. Good idea. For mail, I have two smart folders that I live in 99% of the time: 1) Unread mail, which is anything that has arrived, and not been dealt with yet. 2) Recent mail, which is anything that arrived in the last few days. I think a generalised form of either of these would be a good default. Don't forget, however, that the object sieve is not the standard way of interacting with objects. Object that are frequently accessed will be in projects. The sieve is a fall-back mechanism for the rest. David P.S. We've had a couple of new people drop into SILC in the last few days. Seems like some interest is happening in the real world... _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
