Andrew Conkling wrote: > I had an idea regarding tagging support > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324540) and wanted to get > some feedback before I started hacking. (Well, hopefully. Read on.) > > Since the core support is already added, we have some UI work to do. I > was thinking maybe the UI could be implemented as a (Python) plugin. > It'd be a bit more agile, could hook into all the core parts... and I > could help work on it. :P > > It'd be pretty easy to work on some of the existing ideas--automatic > playlists, the properties dialog, and the context menu. >
I am not sure how exposing tag support is going, but i was wondering about ways to implement in the rb GUI and thought i'd have a stab. Here's what I've come up with regard to rb gui: http://lh3.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/R6_fm74ApCI/AAAAAAAAB5o/MgLF3R_EtKg/taglist-1.jpg&imgmax=640 Borrowing the idea from Thunderbird, those files that have tags receive a green light whilst those that do not have tags receive a gray blob. Personally I am not sure how much value there is in exposing in the main library the tags users have assigned to files, imo it would just add unnecessary clutter. That said i am not 100% happy with my approach, but cannot think of ways to display tag info in a gui-economic way that does not require horizontal scrollbars. http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/viewPhoto?uname=matthew.joseph.mcgowan&aid=5147336492195480833&iid=5165593166207820850 Within the right-click contextual menu we add a menu item 'Edit Tags". http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/viewPhoto?uname=matthew.joseph.mcgowan&aid=5147336492195480833&iid=5165593183387690050 This takes us to a 'Tags" tab within the 'Properties' dialogue. This displays a text box where we can add/edit tags. I've used comma separation to distinguish between separate tags because thats what i am familiar with from other apps/websites that support tagging (i think tracker does this?). The text box could have a scrollbar for those users that desire to list _many_ tags. Also, I have a popular tags display at the bottom, this displays frequently used tags, similar to what del.icio.us does. By clicking upon these frequently used tags they are auto-added to the current selections tag-list. Also, considering limited space we could be smart and rank frequently used tags relative to the artist(s), genre(s) or album(s). So, "tag xyz is frequently used with this particular artist/album/genre, so we'll list it earlier for convenience." Some other simple possibilities: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/viewPhoto?uname=matthew.joseph.mcgowan&aid=5147336492195480833&iid=5165593200567559250 Auto-playlists based on tags. http://lh6.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/R6_frr4ApGI/AAAAAAAAB6I/q3LMi6huvVc/rb-search-include-tagsearch.jpg and... include a tag filter with the main search. Other approaches to be considered: http://lh4.google.com/matthew.joseph.mcgowan/R6_lFL4ApHI/AAAAAAAAB7A/Ozo8B1sk2mg/Screenshot-2.jpg The last.fm player has a list of tags in its sidebar beneath a collapsible heading. Something to think about? Regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
