On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 06:06 -0700, Charlie De wrote: > Thanks to Allan for the responses, but this comment I don't understand: > > > > This is a highly non-standard usage! :) Photo ratings isn't > > functionality that Nautilus should be providing, IMO. > > > > It sounds like you're using Nautilus like a photo management tool. There > > are a couple of good apps for that on GNOME. > > > Surely the emblem feature is 'agnostic', you're not specifying for what > reasons > it may or may not be used. Some may use it to rate photos, others to > organize > spreadsheets... all usage of the feature is valid, no?
Sure - you're right. I was (badly) suggesting that photo management tools provide the kind of metadata-based file organisation which you seem to have been emulating with emblems, but maybe I was wrong. > Yes, you could say I use Nautilus like a photo management tool. The reason > is > that it is the best such tool available, far far better than any app > dedicated > to the purpose. I think I've tried just about all of them and they all > suffer > from the problem that they are not Nautilus. They offer a small subset of > features I have in Nautilus and a few unnecessary bells and whistles on top. Fair enough. :) I'm sure there are plenty of people who prefer to use a file manager to organise their photos. > The comment you've made may have been valid if I had been demanding features > specific to photo management, but I hadn't. The features I find > indispensable > in photo management, such as previews, emblems, sorting, launching of > scripts, > these are all generic features that apply to many types of files and types of > usage. I agree to a certain extent. Though those features are common to all files, the kinds of organising and browsing functionality you want are often different according to the type of file - you want to browse your music by artist or your photos by date taken, for example. A photo manager allows you to filter and organise by tag (the equivalent of emblems). That's a big advantage for many people and its something you can't do with a file manager. The trend right now is towards customised interfaces for particular kinds of files. That makes a lot of sense to me. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list