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

[Alexandru Tudose]

This is cool, it's like googling in thunar  (will start 2 thunar window
because of space):

alex at Alex:/tmp/thunar-0.9.0$ thunar any keyword

Now any unknown uri will be treated like a search uri.
I think that most important feature is searching in thunar, metadata tile is
useful mostly when searching (to show full path of selected files,
additional information ).
Maybe to add Alt-d key binding to focus on path entry and select text, like
in firefox.


2008/8/19 Alexandru Tudose <alextud at gmail.com>

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> 2008/8/19 Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk>
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>> Alexandru Tudose wrote:
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>> > 2008/8/19 Ori Bernstein <ori at eigenstate.org <mailto:ori at eigenstate.org
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>> >     On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:43:40 +0300
>> >     "Alexandru Tudose" <alextud at gmail.com <mailto:alextud at gmail.com>>
>> >     wrote:
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>> >     > 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).
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>> You could have it disappear completely if there are no files selected.
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> Current directory can also have tags.
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>> This kind of modification always needs a lot of tweaking to make it
>> acceptable by the majority.
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> Agreed.
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