On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Kai Willadsen wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:36 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> That raises an interesting idea. If a music file contains embedded >> album art, the file's icon could be based on that art. That would be >> much more useful than a folder full of identical musical-note icons. > > Except that most CD rippers place each album in its own directory, so > by default you'd get an entire directory of files using the same album > art, and there's no real overall gain. > ...
I understand that it wouldn't help distinguish items in the same album, but then the music note icon doesn't do that either. And I think having all a folder's icons showing an album's art would be better than *none* of them showing it, which is what we have now. > Single files downloaded from the interwebs and put in the same > directory would benefit, but is that likely to be a significant use > case vs. whole albums? > ... Another (future) use case is smart folders. For example, a folder that contains symlinks to all tracks in the Classical genre no matter where they are in your home folder. -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
