Disable/Enable collections on the fly?

[Jeff Mitchell]

Maximilian Kossick wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>   
>> Max--
>>
>> Is there a way to on-the-fly enable or disable collections?  I'm
>> thinking about this in the context of portable devices, where a user may
>> not want to automatically mount/connect a device or may want to
>> unmount/disconnect it at a given time.  If there were a way to
>> enable/disable collections, then this would in effect be an appropriate
>> way to determine whether to connect the portable player or not.
>>
>> --Jeff
>>     
>
> Assuming that the the portable device should always appear in the collection 
> browser, check out CollectionManager::addUnmanagedCollection, 
> CollectionManager::removeUnmanagedCollection, Collection::remove, 
> CollectionFactory::newCollection
>
> Using this method you can decide at any time to add or remove collections.
>
> Cheers, Max
>   
Sounds good, but I was also wondering if there was some more GUI way to 
do it (perhaps this is a question for someone else).  If we get rid of 
the device browser -- which makes sense considering all the various 
Collection methods available -- we'd need a way to connect and 
disconnect a device, which would be implemented alongside adding and 
removing the device's collection.  Is there a standard planned way to 
show a list of available collections (possibly populated on the fly, so 
things like devices detected in Solid would show up as appropriate), and 
have them toggle-able?

--Jeff