RFC: add Pictures to to wallpaper list

[Fania Bremmer]

Am 27.10.2011 16:57, schrieb Gaël Beaudoin:
> Le 27/10/2011 16:49, Thomas Pfeiffer a écrit :
>>>> - search for them? but my images mostly have some cryptic numbers like
>>>> IMG_021588...
>>> searching indeed has less use in this case, though i don't think there
>> is
>>> much
>>> we can do for it.
>> Searching by filename is sooo 2010 :P
>> We're on a semantic database here, so we assume there is semantic
>> information
>> such as tags and ratings and stuff attached to fotos, right? I mean,
>> that's what the
>> "Organize fotos" usecase was mostly about!
>> So I'd suggest to postpone this until we have the file organizing UI
>> because then
>> file names are of no concern to the user anymore and the background 
>> image
>> selection dialog has to have all nepomuk niceties anyway.
good plan, lets wait for this new workflow concept.

>>
>> It's interesting to see how even we from the team are still stuck 
>> with the
>> mental
>> model of file names, though. So it will be challenging to get users to
>> change
>> theirs.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>> or, we could do in another way:
>> basic list as now, with a button "Use own photo..."
>> that would open the infamous resource browser thing, so with search, filtering
>> and what not.
>> only difference with the add resource interface that besides supporting only
>> images it would support only selecting a single thumbnail, the click ok, or
>> something like that
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco Martin
This sounds good for a first approach for PA2: basic list as now and a 
button "set own picture as wallpaper" which leads later then to our new 
file browser.


> On android gallery, it's grouped by time segments that we can narrow. 
> like first, year, then, months, days. this is rather convenient, even 
> where there are a lot of pictures.
> Gaël
>
good input, we will definitly need some sort of smart filtering on a 
timeline to find relevant content... we will try to include this in the 
new concept.