Yeah, that's right. something similar to this I have recently noticed that has been add on Geequie . They call it "Calendar view". thanks for the information: I would have to work inside Thunar if I want to implement this feature.
2009/3/4 Jannis Pohlmann <[email protected]> > Hey, > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:58:29 +0100 > Oscar Miras <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi , > > > > First of all, sorry for my English: I'm studying to improve it, > > really. My name's Oscar Miras, and I'm a student working on my final > > project degree; at the Informatics Barcelona's School. > > Me and my tutor are deciding in wich project we are going to work on. > > We're checking mainly two programs: Gqview ( now Geequie) and Thunar. > > > > We want to add a new feature to make navigation between files more > > intuitive . For instants, one example is to group by date all the > > pics shown on the navigation windows of Thunar, in a similar way that > > Fotolog does: showing it as calendar format , emphasing on the dates > > where the major amount of pics were created. The reason is that when > > Thunar ( and more others image navigation programs ) have a large > > amount of pics, it's quite difficult to find the exact picture you > > are trying to find( even using thumbails) Moreover, people do not > > usually change the default name of a picture when they make one with > > their camera. We also may color the days of the calendar where more > > photos has occurred. > > > > We're thinking also about using other meta-data information that > > multimedia files can give us, so maybe we colud use the camera time > > and date to sort the photos. > > I'm talking all the time about multimedia files,but everything i'm > > talking about could also be applied to other types of files . There > > have been just two exemples; the project has just started ;). > > > > The main question is: if we finally decided to add this feature to > > Thunar, should it be part of the core of Thunar (and maybe make it as > > a 'switch option'), or does it look like more like a plugin? Is it > > really so difficult to modify the core of Thunar ( we want to finish > > project on July, working on it 4 hours a day ) > > So, whate you are talking about would be an additional view that could > be used as an alternative to the icon, list and detail views? Right now > this is only possible inside Thunar, not via a plugin. > > Cheers, > Jannis > > _______________________________________________ > Thunar-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev > >
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