Task Proposal: Files handling,browsing,tagging

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 19 January 2012 18:09:06 Marco Martin wrote:
> User Story
> =======
> The user will use a centralized application (with some pieces of it
> available also as a component, in order to have it embedded in other apps)
> when he want to tag, move,delete, copy to usb a large group of files,
> regardless of the file type

Also rename, rate, add to activities and maybe comment.
What about web storage? This should work as seamlessly as USB storage imo.

> Why this is important
> =============
> Right now Plasma active doesn't have a file manager, is possible to access
> only to images or arbitrary files by adding them to the current activity,
> not possible to delete them or copy to/from an usb drive
> 
> Proposed implementation
> ================
> 1) Finish eventual missing points of the nepomuk data models
> 2) export a public component for filesystem browsing (will be used only for
> removable drives)
> 3) write a simple application to control the metadata model, to do queries
> (facet style browsing) by:
>   a) date
>   b) name
>   c) rathing
>   d) associated activity
    e) tags
> 4) functions to individually or mass-tagging, rating,deleting
> 5) simple explorer of removable drives, in the same app, same (even tough
> limited, partially disabled) ui
> 6) when browsing the local storage a "send to removable drive" option will
> be there, maybe with slc, when browsing a removable drive there will be an
> option to send to local storage, both either individually or en mass

As mentioned above: Do the same for web storage.

> 7) move parts worth to be shared in an import to be able to include parts of
> it in other applications (ie semantic file selection dialog)
> 
> 
> Task Details
> =======
> Owned by: Marco Martin
> Effort Estimation: 5
> Task dependencies: to Authentication framework for SLC aspects.