[Nautilus-list] Feature Requests

["Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentstar com>]

These are some of the features that I have suggested for Evolution that are
probably valuable to just about all of the Gnome projects


Searching Features


Feature: abbreviates and or symbols are recognized as words by the search
engine

Feature: Fuzzy Searching - words can be misspelled when entered in the
search (or when saved) and still have a good chance of being found

Feature: Synonym searching - you can search for a word with similar meaning
to yours, so that if different people file the document another person can
find it

Feature: Clustering analysis - finding of similar content for grouping
purposes

Feature: Outlier analysis - Finding rare content for grouping purposes

Feature: Spell checking of file names - documents and files that have
strange spellings can have the option of doing spell checking

Feature: Metadata for files - additional metadata can be added to any file
to enhance searching and filing capabilities

Note the clustering and outlier analysis can be utilized with fuzzy and
synonym for extremely powerful searching


Help Features

Feature: Help is linked to IRC, thus if a search term/phrase is not found
one can go to the appropriate IRC channel, and the previous queries can be
sent - the IRC person responds, and the queries are linked to the
appropriate answer (if it already exists) or the answer is added to the
help.  Thus the next time the help is updated if someone asks a similar
question they will find the correct answer.  Note that the Searching
features above would greatly improve the power of the help...

Feature: Visually directed help - the help dialog could be closed, and the
next location to click would be highlighted/have a dialog next to it

Feature: Spoken help - the help would be spoken instead of having to be
read - preferably with the user to be able to give feedback vocally, as well
as through their actions with the mouse and keyboard

Feature: Actions translated to help - a scripting that translates a users
actions into a help to be played back in one of the above methods (or as a
standard help description)


Other Features

Feature: Command Line Widget - advanced users could have a single input line
(with possibly a two line display) for quick entry of script and shell
commands - or it could be similar to Vi/Emacs command mode

Feature: Interviewer - subjects could be interviewed as to their previous
experience in other OSes/programs, so that training and help/hints could be
focused on where they don't have experience

Feature: Command Summary Cards - a quick summary of the commands and
features available  (similar to the laminated cards available for courses
and some software programs...)

Feature: Split folderers - instead of spawning a new folder, a folder can be
spawned in the same window, but splitting the view so that there is now two
folder lists

Feature: Root PW widget - a Panel or widget to quickly log into/out of Root
so that advanced functionality can be used safely and then quickly turned
off.  (Someone also mentioned this is the /. discussion...)


Hope you find some of these worth implementing,

Tom M.
TomM pentstar com