[Tracker] Tracker-Gui Bottom panel

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

I have more thoughts on the bottom panel (currently a text widget)

This is a selection sensitive panel showing stuff for the selected 
search result in the icon/list view

This should show the following:

1) basic metadata and thumbnail (file path, mime type, file size, last 
modified). (This stuff would also show in the listview of the search 
results btw).

2) small preview of text (only a few lines) with search term highlighted 
(or blank if not applicable). For music/vidoe/image files we can show 
their specific metadata here instead.

3) All tags as a line of hyperlinks (see libsexy for widget) that when 
clicked would launch a tag browser window that shows all other files 
with that tag. Right Clicking on a tag brings up a menu to delete the 
tag. Need an New Tag link too that when clicked turns into an entry box.

The tag browser should look like nautilus with a sidepanel (the panel 
will show all tags).

4) File.Rank metadata - can show this as a set of stars a la Vista. Need 
ablility to edit this

5) A space to add a description + A Button to bring up a general 
metadata get/set window.


of course the trick here is to manage all this in what is a relatively 
small space so feel free to come up with mockups or glade 
implementations of this. I quite like Vista's implementation with a 
green panel at the bottom - see:

http://www.activewin.com/articles/2005/images/All%20Docs.jpg

--
Mr Jamie McCracken
http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/