> It seems to me that currently, emblems are simply eye-candy: > they decorate file/folders. The most you can do is arrange your icons by > emblem. > > Emblems would be a whole lot more useful if they could be searched on, > using the Search For Files utility. E.g. if you could stick the 'Urgent' > emblem on a bunch of files and then pull up these files in a search window > (whatever form this takes) at a later date. > > BC
This metadata searchability looks very interesting for performing an action (copy,move,open with a program,etc) to a set of files that are in different folders, for example, I could browse all my digital cam photos that are in different folders and mark those photos that I appeared on with a custom emblem, then make a search for that emblem and now I can copy all that photos to a new folder called "Photos I appeared" or I could zip them all and send them to my girlfriend by email. Maybe this is already possible, I mean, if nautilus lets create custom emblems, and that emblem metadata can be read by other applications, then, for example, Beagle could be extended to also index files by metadata. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
