RFC: Adjust the visual display of the categories in the "add resource window"

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 28 October 2011, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > tabs are slightly better, though that would be a significant change from
> 
> the
> 
> > current UI. if the tabs were integrated visually with the top of the
> 
> window
> 
> > (so the 'window itself' was tabbed) it could look nice.
> 
> Sorry I didn't read your message before replying to the previous one.
> I think the tab-like controls in the About app look and work pretty well
> and
> I don't see why they should not work here.

one of the key differences is that in the about app there are only 3 tabs

i don't know if we will want to have more categories or not there, but is 
pretty obvious that it won't scale that much.

here we are again in the problem of chosing one item in an huge list, so the 
answer once again is resource browser (sounding like a broken record here ;)

that add resource thing is something that even not being it, semantically 
really takes the place of a file selection dialog.

so what are the criteria i could use to find something? (that basically are 
also the ones i used to design the api of the nepomuk model)

* full teext searc
* type, if i know that i'm searching for a "document" (very generic types as 
is now i think is ok, the more detailed they become, like pagedtextdocument, 
the more useless they become)
* date, if i rememebr that was roughly 2 moths ago i took that photo
* rating, if i did put some stars "just to find it again in the future"
* tags: kinda time expensive to do (just ui issue i think), extremely 
efficient to be used for searching then

* other type specific stuff, like filtering contacts by company, genre for 
mp3s and things like that

designing an ui that lets to do all of this that won't look goofy and 
massively cluttered will be a clallenge, but the direction has to be that.
if for pa2 there will still just be this simple filter by type is fine, 
important is that the architecture leans towards realizing that

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Marco Martin