On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:34 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > >> Perhaps the following features would define a spatial > >> app: > >> > >> 1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't disturb > >> the app it's open in > > why not have a central repo for document specific data, rather than each > > application as nautilus or scribes/scratchpad using a app specific > > database. > > > > ~/.spatial/<doc-hash> > > Actually, the desktop search engines around are planning on providing > such things (random metadata for files). Tracker does this by design, > and I think the beagle team is planning on providing a similar feature. i tend to disable system wide search, as i rarely use them.
music -> rhythmbox video -> tagging is a pain with current gui apps ( or i need to be informed of apps which can do tagging of video files as easytag ) email/chat documents (docs/pdf) hmmmm. beagle starts to sound good, and is only enabled for a particular folder. tracker, i have not tried out. will check it out. > > >> 2. renaming the file in the file manager causes the > >> app to update its title bar accordingly > > sounds perfect. > > Main issue is: how to do it? I'm not aware of any way of doing such > things currently. AFAIK gnome-vfs monitoring can tell you a file has > been deleted, but can't tell you if the deletion is a move, and were it > moved. (It might want a bugzilla enhancement request, but I don't know > if it's solvable) an api for file move ? > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
