Re: special folders (was Call for a Gnome Media Center)
Hi, Note that the new migration assistant available in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 4 migrate 'My Music' to ~/Music, etc. I do not like the idea of virtual folder. A nice feature in iTunes is the nice renaming of files. I wonder if we should implement an extended special forlder system that automatically tag/translate/… folder given their name. This is already done for ~ and maybe ~/Desktop. However, translation is done in Bookmarks, not in file view. We need to share code to handle thos special folder. Special folder exists (see ~ and ~/Desktop), we just need to * Handle generically translation on view (keeping the real name in capitalized english) * Handle an extensible list of special desktop (Projects, Sites, Sources, …) * Target special desktop by mime-type. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
special folders (was Call for a Gnome Media Center)
What about this... (using nautilus) ~/Music is a virtual folder (saved search) of mimetype:audio, inside you don't see files or folders, you see albums, click album to see available songs, once you select some, an add to playlist button appear on top, the button has drop down menu shows you applications that can handle this type of files Now imagine the same thing to (office) documents, photos, videos... and files-appeared-on-hd-this-week! I think this could be done coding nautilus plugin (pygtk) that talks to tracker or beagle through dbus On side note, Lucas Rocha blogged about Selection bits [1] KDE user asked for it [2] six days later a KDE developer done it [3] 1 http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2007/01/15/0 2 http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=52738 3 http://www.ereslibre.es/screenshot4.png ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
