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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Metadata based recent files list
From:       "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2003-03-28 20:31:44
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David Findlay wrote:

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>Does anyone think it would be a good idea to base the recent files list in the 
>K menu on metadata of a file, using the KFile system? For instance with an 
>mp3 or ogg file, the name of file from the id3 tags would be used. For a DVD 
>the DVD title would be used, etc. It would make life easier, than trying to 
>figure out what the filename of the thing was. Thanks,
>
Or perhaps you can give your files sensible names.  That is, of course, 
if it's possible.  I can see the problem with DVD .vobs.

Your idea is worthy of consideration though.  Perhaps the menu could say:

boby.mp3  (Bobby Fisher - Chess Blues)
dvd56hhh.vob (The Matrix Reloaded)

So as to not surprise the users - because most users *will be* expecting 
file names there, not guessed renderings based on metadata.

Anyway, maybe what's missing in KDE is a transparent metadata framework 
(KFile helps, but I'm talking real metadata here, the kind of metadata 
you use to bulild an automated index, custom properties for each file, 
etcetera).  If there existed, be assured this kind of job would be much 
easier.  In a future release, perhaps that metadata framework would 
integrate at the OS level to provide seamless metadata representations.  
A la Macintosh (individual file icons are metadata in another file 
stream, stored along the file).

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>David
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>- -- 
>It's not that engineers are boring people, we just get excited about boring 
>things.
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