On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Christian Neumair wrote:
>
> El mar, 22-04-2008 a las 13:40 -0300, Ricardo Ayres Severo escribió:
>>
>> Is there a way to sort files by access frequency?
> ...
>> I'm a programmer and am willing to write such plugin, (if the time to
>> do this is no more than a weekend, as the time is scarce here).
>> If it is possible, can you give some starting directions?
> ...
> A) Decide how this is exposed it in the GUI, maybe by talking to the
> usability guys ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
A non-obvious but very useful way to apply access frequency would be in
sorting search results (e.g. in Tracker, if it doesn't do this
already).
For an individual folder, I suggest:
* In List view, there could be a "Popularity" column (off by default)
where each item has a bar, so that the column as a whole forms a bar
chart. (Or you could even have a sparkline area chart for each item,
showing its popularity over time.)
* In Icon view, the icons for the most popular items could glow, with
the brightness of the glow being logarithmically proportional to how
often they're accessed.
* In the "Applications" menu, more frequently used applications could
have the same glow.
> ...
> B) What does "frequently" mean?
>
> However this feature is implemented, it has to be decided what items
> should be preferred. I.e. some recent accesses could be preferred over
> many ancient accesses.
This could be a "Frequently used:" slider with "Recently" at one end
and "Ever" at the other. (I don't have a good idea of where this slider
would go, though.)
Be careful to count only human accesses, e.g. someone double-clicking
on a file in Nautilus, or choosing a file in a filepicker. Otherwise
something like a log file could show up as being extremely popular even
if you'd never opened it yourself.
Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
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