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

[Alexandru Tudose]

2008/8/19 Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk>

>
>
> Alexandru Tudose wrote:
> >
> > 2008/8/19 Ori Bernstein <ori at eigenstate.org <mailto:ori at eigenstate.org>>
> >
> >     On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:43:40 +0300
> >     "Alexandru Tudose" <alextud at gmail.com <mailto:alextud at gmail.com>>
> >     wrote:
> >
> >     > 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).
> >
> >     It looks like an interesting idea, although I'd personally rather
> just
> >     show more files in the space that it takes. I don't use my file
> >     manager to check information about files enough to have it
> >     persistently taking up space at the bottom of the window; I
> >     already know everything about the file that I want to open in the
> >     common case. (And if not, I'm still using my patch that Benny
> >     rejected which lets the "properties" window show the props of the
> >     most recently selected file.)
> >
> >
> > How about tags (see attached picture) ?
> > That's the beauty of it, on click tile will expand/minimize (one click
> > away).
>
> You could have it disappear completely if there are no files selected.


Current directory can also have tags.


>
> This kind of modification always needs a lot of tweaking to make it
> acceptable by the majority.


Agreed.

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