Files task prioritization

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

Hi,
here are my comments:

On 02.11.2012 15:51, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> P2
>      Deleting files not working: likely due to mount permissions, but more
> elegant handling needs to be derived in any case

Since this happens even on the internal storage and I can delete files from 
Konsole, I don't think it's a permission issue, but we'll see once someone looks 
into it.

> P3
>      No full text search: probably nepomuk related

This must be a regression then, because iirc full text search within Files 
worked at some point. Maybe some configuration parameter changed? It would be a 
bit sad if we couldn't get that to work, since it works pretty well on Desktop 
by now.

>      Tag size update: difficult due to nepomuk query updating
>
> UI Improvements
> ===========
> P1
>      Icon view: the resizing issue is one of the most glaring cosmetic issues
> that everyone notices. as the sidebar is key functionality, everyone will
> notice this.
>
> P2
>      Sidebar tabs visual refresh (unless we manage to get rid of the tabs :)
>      Intro page issues: I'm going to guess that this is more of a discussion
> item; it may join the Dropped items once this discussion is had as I have the
> suspicion it may simply be a discoverability issue which needs a more general
> PA-wide solution
>
> P3
>      Timeline zoom: valid points, though compared to other items it generally
> works and is less of an eye-sore
>
> Dropped:
>      file copy: this is a more general issue in PA related to discoverability
>      ctrl-click: multi-select is possible and works pretty well (long tap and
> multi-touch drag). again, discoverability.

Discoverability really is the biggest issue here. And it's not because our 
gestures are less "intuitive" then those used in other systems, it's because we 
don't show them to users in lots and lots of ads before they use our product.
That's why we had the idea of short "tutorial" even before PA1 but we haven't 
got to do them yet.
This definitely has to change for PA4. FAQs may help a little here as well (we 
might have to make them more prominent, though, maybe put them on the 
introduction Activity in a plasmoid like the other intro plasmoid), but videos 
would be a lot better.
Another way would be to highlight possible drop-targets if drag&drop action is 
initiated (that won't help with the selection issue, of course).

>
> Missing Functionality
> ============
> P1
>      File and Tag rename/delete/remove: this is key functionality that is
> simply just missing, so critical to get this one done

It is critical (espially the renaming an deletion of tags). However please 
consider the second solution I just put into the wiki. If you don't agree with 
it, we should discuss it more, but I am very strongly against many aspects of 
the first solution. It seems to me to try to overcome discoverability issues by 
introducing much less powerful alternatives to drag & drop. This should not be 
the way to go.

Consider everything I have not commented on as "+1" :)