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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KListView, Dolphin and usability
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2007-02-16 20:34:12
Message-ID: er54g4$8ft$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Stefan Monov wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2007 09:21:35 pm Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> What if it were possible to open a folder in 'iTunes/Amarok'
>> view?
> It's called Info List View and it's bundled with KDE 3.5.6 ;)
> View»View Mode»Info List View
> Admittedly a filebrowser view mode is not the best place for this. And yes, 
> it's far less featurefull than Amarok's collection browser.

Why not? In a directory of music files, why /shouldn't/ info view have 
as many columns (or options for, at least) as Amarok? :-)

There should be a way to configure per folder what columns info list 
view displays (and this should be saved and remembered, probably in the 
folder itself), but the current implementation is certainly on the right 
track.

>> some sort of configurable meta-data system that is
>> plug-in aware.
> I might be wrong, but don't KFile plugins do exactly that?

Probably :-). (Except it seems you can't edit; at least not PNG 
comments, which was the first example I tried.)

I didn't say we didn't already have a lot of the stuff I was rambling 
about, I was also suggesting ways to leverage it. Specifically, a: allow 
user-defined metadata, and b: use metadata (user chooses /what/ 
metadata) to form "categories" in the file browser. Being able to do all 
this, and also virtually restructure the directory hierarchy at a given 
point, would be helpful. For instance, if files on disk are 
/home/me/music/<artist>/<album>, it would be useful to show everything 
in /home/me/music (including subdirectories) in one view, but with 
virtual folders (e.g. 'Classical/Mozart/'). As mentioned, this could 
also be done with categories; the main point is to have a way to see 
only what you are interested in if say your music collection is say tens 
of thousands of files.

-- 
Matthew
"I like to think of it as 'unplanned dissonance'" -- A fellow chorister

 
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