Re: GtkFileChooser extensions

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Thought I add a few interesting use cases off the top of my head...

- Searching for "pictures from naples" should show me photos and maybe
their categories, not just the meaningless name my camera gave it.

- Searching for "joe email" should be able to show me attachments joe
has sent me in email that I haven't saved anywhere yet.  It may also
display the title of the email it was sent in.

- Searching for "polymorphic type system" should be able to show me the
pdf document I browsed online, but which either doesn't exist on the
filesystem or has been automatically put in some temp directory.

- Searching for "kid a" should display my music from that album and the
artist's name and track title.

There are a million more, but representing them all in the existing
file-chooser treeview is going to be difficult while still making them
useful to the way the user thinks about a file's origin and meaning.

-Alex

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:07, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Yoyo,
> 
> I'm wondering if the best way to convey search context is by showing
> Tiles, as would appear in Best.  Search results may encompass weird
> connections between terms and results, and I think the Tile UI will end
> up being the way that those connections are made useful and
> understandable to the user.  
> 
> So is it a good idea to make the extension spec robust enough to handle
> setting an arbitrary main file-list widget?
> 
> -Alex
> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:15, Fernando Herrera wrote:
> > El mié, 22-09-2004 a las 10:25 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero escribió:
> > > I've been working on a specification for an extension mechanism for
> > > GtkFileChooser.  Global searching, lock-down, and metadata systems would
> > > benefit from being able to extend what GtkFileChooser can do.
> > > 
> > > The draft spec is here:
> > > 
> > > http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/file-chooser-extension-spec/index.html
> > 
> > 	Really cool!. About the search stuff on the filechooser, I was talking
> > with someone about it, and we realized that, for files, context is
> > really important. Thing about searching a picture of "Lucas" typying
> > "lucas" and presenting results as normal files in the file view. It
> > would ne like:
> >   * Lucas.jpg
> >   * 1002.jpg
> >   * IMG234.jpg
> >   [...]
> > 
> > But maybe the user would like to know their context:
> >   * /media/pictures/Lucas - Ribiera Concert/1002.jpg
> >   * /media/pictures/partys/Fiesta en casa de Lucas/Lucas.jpg
> >   * /home/fer/Desktop/crazy lucas/IMG234.jpg
> > 
> > so that's because I used clarkbw Find UI [1] in my quick-and-dirty-only-
> > for-me GtkFileChooser search hack [2]
> > 
> > 	So I don't know if gtk_file_chooser_set_extra_widget_for_extension() is
> > flexible enough for adding the widget in the right place (as seen in [3]
> > it is over the file list for the open dialog)
> > 
> > Salu2
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > [1]: http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/blog/GNOME/finding_a_good_find
> > [2]:
> > http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog/searching_inside_the_GtkFileChooser.html
> > [3]: http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/file-chooser-extension-
> > spec/open-with-search-results.png
> > 
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