Nightly update. There's some cleanup on the bottom pane. On 9/18/06, Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com> wrote:
On 9/18/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote: > Edward Duffy wrote: > > Just another quick addition...does this interface for adding tags make > > sense? I kinda like it, but I can see it being confusing at first.... > > > > On 9/17/06, Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com> wrote: > >> Here's an update where I've started some work on the bottom pane. > >> It's still going to need some serious love, but some of the idea's in > >> Jamie's Sep 14 email are starting to be incorporated. > >> > > hey that rocks :) > > love the tags + button too > Thanks. Now it just needs a recent pop-under that shows available tags (like Epiphany) > There are a few minor things > > There should be 3 columns as follows: > I was thinking about having this dynamic based on the size of the window and the size of the columns, but this sounds much cleaner (and easier!). > 1) as now + include all basic matadata here like tags, rank, file size > etc (I dont think we need to display permissions). The column should > wrap so that tags dont infringe on other cols I gave the entire bottom row to tags because I wasn't sure how many tags most people associate with a file. I don't think I've used anymore than 2, but I thought it might look funny if it wrapped...even more so now with a text entry and two buttons (when you're adding a tag). > > 2) The middle column should be for service specific metadata (like Music > stuff for music files). For plain files this column should be invisible > easy > 3) The last column should show a few lines of the so text contents in a > scrollable fashion. If no contents then this column will be invsible > Sure..there's a method to do this already, I beleive. > also we should have a button to view/edit all metadata for a file in a grid that shouldn't be too bad..there's enough introspection information in there that should make this pretty straight forward. Is there any error checking on tracker's end? ie, does it make sure that File.Rank is an integer from 1 to 10? > > Going to be fun converting that to C. yeah, i feel sorry for that poor bastard. ;) > > > > -- > Mr Jamie McCracken > http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ >
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