Thunar new feature: metadata-tile, tag-bar and search.

[Alexandru Tudose]

Hi,

I have created a meta data tile for thunar that will show meta data from
selected file, it use tracker as backend (really fast indexer). At the
bottom is a tag bar where user can add/remove different tags to one or many
selected files, on tag click will start search for that keyword. To be fully
in use it require that tracker is running, to fetch tags and other metadata
of selected files, but it looks quiet good without tracker. When user
click's on Size label it will show exact size of selected files (even in
trash/search directory).

Also I implemented search in thunar-vfs with tracker, see
thunar-vfs-io-search.c . It's a really simple implementation, a search uri
will start with: *search://   *after that we can include any keyword. This
is done with a new THUNAR_VFS_PATH_SCHEME_SEARCH = 0x20000000 to represent
search uri (THUNAR_VFS_PATH_SCHEME_MASK will get a new value  0x60000000
from previous one 0x40000000). Search uri will be represented as a readonly
directory (it can work with read/write permission).

If tile is minimized it will work like a status bar, there will be no
additionally overhead to thunar.

To compile it need to recreate makefile.in: xdt-autogen
--disable-maintainer-mode

So please test it and tell me your opinions, I want this to be included in
thunar.

Thanks.
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