RE: Re: Re: Re: [Nautilus-list] icon set cover image suggestion

["rpmuldoon students wisc edu" <rpmuldoon students wisc edu>]

Hmmmm.....Maybe you're right.  Dealing with multiple formats could be done in other (perhaps less elegant) ways....like popping up a dialog box that just has a radio button list of things like "MP3, Ogg, WAV, etc" and a cancel option.  Or a preference, but adding too many preferences is probably a bad idea.

I like your idea of being able to associate a folder with an action.  Perhaps this could be settable with emblems. ;-)  I think emblems are one of the potentially coolest parts of nautilus....they just need to be made more accessible (like via a right click menu or something), and have pre-set and/or user-configurable actions/states associated with them.

Hopefully once I fix my computer, and figure out my cvs building problems, I can actually contribute some code.   My previous attempt at a patch was thwarted by my inability to test it. :(

    --Ryan

Original Message:
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From: Ian McKellar yakk-nautilus yakk net au
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:01:14 +0800
To: rpmuldoon students wisc edu, bart decrem com, nickrud citlink net, nautilus-list lists eazel com
Subject: Re: Re: Re: [Nautilus-list] icon set cover image suggestion


On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:43:20PM -0400, rpmuldoon students wisc edu wrote:
> It's cool that most of what I want is already there. ;-)
> 
> I kind of like the idea of Nautilus just doing the Right Thing if I drag a song to my music folder.....One of my (perhaps wrongheaded) thoughts on general UI stuff is that the user doesn't (or, at least, shouldn't have to) care how something is implemented....so if I can listen to a song on my cd, and I want to have it on my hard drive too, I should just drag it over.  Kind of thinking in terms of functionality instead of applications.  Of course, this could be an HCI horror, and I am just too ignorant to realize why. ;-)  It just seems like a nice bit of integration/seamlessness.

Well, I don't think simply dragging a file to a regular folder should trigger
an encode. What if I want to rip raw WAV file off a CD for sampling or 
something. One crazy idea I had was to be able to associate a script with
a folder so that whenever you drag a file into the folder, instead of
actually copying it, the script is called.

So for example, dragging files from cdda:// to file://home/yakk/music/
could in fact run:
  /home/yakk/music/.nautilus-script "cdda://My Track.wav" "cdda://My Other Track.wav" 
This script could trigger the actual rip/encode.

Another thing this could be useful for is to automatically trigger an rsync
when you drop a file into a folder that represents what you want on your
web site.

Anyway, I don't have time to implement it but i think it would be cool.

Ian

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