I should have included that I'm not much of a developer - part time tinkerer if anything... My area of contribution will have to remain in testing. ;)
On 10/11/2011 12:06 PM, Danial Bulloch wrote: > Apps can disobey the .nomedia, sure, but it isn't to prevent an app > from being able to see the contents, it's there to allow developers to > know what to ignore. On android there is nothing stopping an app from > scrapping my podcast folder for music if it feels like it, but the > .nomedia tells the app developer that I don't want it to, which is > important. .nomedia is nice, but it isn't granular. For example, my > music folder has album art. I don't want my photo applications to find > the album art and start throwing it in with my photos, so something > like .nopictures and .nomusic might be in order too. Another good point... > Perhaps in the documentation it would be a good idea to specify, just > to make sure people know that it isn't protection, just organization. > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Bartek Przybylski <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Daniel! >> This is a really good idea! >> But i hope you are aware of the fact that anyone can write app and >> disobey this restriction? >> Ill use your idea in gallery app if you don't mind :) That would be awesome! Thanks again! >> Bartek >> >> 2011/10/11 Daniel <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Is there a possibility of implementing an option to control which >>> folders are scanned for media types? >>> >>> Similar to Android's method of creating an empty file named ".nomedia" >>> that causes android to skip scanning that folder. This would be useful >>> in the sense that different types of media can be isolated. For >>> instance, the gallery would show my personal pictures instead of >>> including pictures from my expense reports. >>> >>> Thanks for the hard work on this project... it's really starting to shine! >>> Daniel _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
