Re: [Nautilus-list] List View Usability Suggestion



On 08Oct2001 02:35AM (+0200), Jens Lautenbacher wrote:
> On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 01:37, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: 
> 
> > To do implement all these features > easily requires a bit of 
> > refactoring of the music view though (right now it's mostly 
> > one big class with little or no abstraction).
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice if the music view would be a bonobo control so other
> gnome stuff could share it?

It is a bonobo control.

> so maybe one could map the extension .m3u (the mp3 playlists) to be
> rendered by this component. A virtual playlist could be constructed
> by nautilus for a directory view with music files.

I was thinking of it the other way around - a playlist would be
treated as a sort of virtual directly.

> If nautilus would someday have the ability to embed more than one bonobo
> control at a time directly in it's icon view, one could imagine to have
> something like that: for all mp3/vorbis/etc files in a directory,
> construct a "virtual" playlist file and use the "music control" to
> render it while still showing all the other files that may be in the
> directory as icons.

I think that would be confusing. Switching views makes more sense to
me.

 - Maciej




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