Standardizing Context Menu Actions

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/11/3 Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Alejandro Wainzinger
> <aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Dan Meltzer
>> <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> 2008/11/3 Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com>:
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Alejandro Wainzinger
>>>>> <aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The CollectionTreeView currently makes special cases of: editing tags
>>>>>> (EditCapability), Copy To Collection, Move To Collection,
>>>>>> CustomActionsCapability, etc.  But they all have the same idea in
>>>>>> mind: get a list of Meta::Track, and perform some actions on them.
>>>>>> What's desired is to refactor this so that the Collections, that the
>>>>>> selected tracks belong to, get tested for certain Capabilities, and
>>>>>> these Capabilities are all built in one go.  This also means making
>>>>>> certain Capabilities for Collection, instead of Track.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> While I agree think that this is necessary, and we should do it, I
>>>>> think this definately needs to wait until after 2.0.  This sounds like
>>>>> a lot of code and changes, and has a possibility of introducing
>>>>> regressions.  In terms of implementation, I think the possibly best
>>>>> way to do this would be to make Collection inherit from Meta::Base (as
>>>>> It's really a type of meta).
>>>>
>>>> I disagree, I think this is of such importance that it needs to happen asap.
>>>
>>> The only real issue I've heard it cause so far is that people can only
>>> delete one track at a time from media devices.  This isn't great, but
>>> it's not a show stopper.  We can't keep deeming small issues
>>> showstoppers.  We've already delayed the release a lot for a lastfm
>>> bump that was completely unnecessary.  This is going to involve a lot
>>> of code changing.  It makes sense to put this off until we have time
>>> to let it get tested sufficiently.
>>
>> How about removing from local collection, MP3Tunes, etc.?
>
> Alt-F2 -> Dolphin.

The people that are still using file managers to delete music tracks
are also using xmms.

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