Re: [Usability] Display file notes easily

["Amaury Chamayou" <achamayou gmail com>]

On 6/18/07, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:

> Single files downloaded from the interwebs and put in the same
> directory would benefit, but is that likely to be a significant use
> case vs. whole albums?
> ...

Another (future) use case is smart folders. For example, a folder that
contains symlinks to all tracks in the Classical genre no matter where
they are in your home folder.

Yeah, I've been waiting for this to happen since I quit using BeOS. To some extent you can do it already by "saving" your queries in Nautilus search interface as "virtual folders", but it's unbearably slow unless you use Beagle or something equivalent (which I don't out of power saving concern). Th feature is buried in a menu however. I remember posting a mockup meant to expose it in a more obvious way but it didn't raise attention. If anybody is interested, it's still around here (looking back at it, it could use a lot of improvement) : 
http://www.mail-archive.com/usability gnome org/msg02490.html (the pic link seems to work).

Amaury