special folders (was Call for a Gnome Media Center)

[adel <netdur+maillist gmail com>]

What about this... (using nautilus) ~/Music is a virtual folder (saved
search) of "mimetype:audio", inside you don't see files or folders,
you see albums, click album to see available songs, once you select
some, an "add to playlist" button appear on top, the button has drop
down menu shows you applications that can handle this type of files

Now imagine the same thing to (office) documents, photos, videos...
and files-appeared-on-hd-this-week!

I think this could be done coding nautilus plugin (pygtk) that talks
to tracker or beagle through dbus

On side note, Lucas Rocha blogged about "Selection bits" [1] KDE user
asked for it [2] six days later a KDE developer done it [3]

1 http://blogs.gnome.org/view/lucasr/2007/01/15/0
2 http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=52738
3 http://www.ereslibre.es/screenshot4.png