My Dream File Manager

[Ellen Reitmayr]

> 1) Hide the details from a user on how to access their files
fully agree - and I think a redesign of the network connection wizard should 
be one of the next steps. 

> 2) View & Edit meta information
that's something for the context/info bar, no?
here, we still got the problem of the single click paradigm: when you select 
an item, you open it, that means the information comes somewhat after the 
fact. this is less severe for folders, but annoying for files.

apart from selecting double-click as the default (please not!), hover-menus as 
suggested by aaron would help: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/icons.html

> 3) Export and Import
cd burning is a thing i've passed by right now when thinking about the 
bookmarks sidebar. what's the point in showing an empty cd/dvd in the file 
manager if you can't do anything with it? also, burning cds belongs to file 
management tasks (e.g. data transfer or backup).

> 6) Manual Grouping
while this is going to be available in the bookmarks sidebar, i really wonder 
how it interacts with other parts of the desktop, e.g. the start menu. all 
the concepts i've seen so far (kickoff, seele's mockups, kbfx) allow for 
grouping of items and applications as well. how can we integrate this?

> 7) External interface to access the "stuff" in the manager
ah, maybe this is an answer to my above question? should this interface also 
be able to receive information from other apps, e.g. start menu then?

> 8) Extensible
hm, but won't distributions ship all these plugins once they are available? i 
agree some extensibility is required, but i don't think it should be too easy 
to write extensions.

> 9) Addon/intigrated tools/actions that build upon the above features
some of these are for heavy, heavy power users... would be cool if we could 
agree on a set of statements of what dolphin should be, and what not. 

cheers,
/el



On Friday 01 December 2006 03:37, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> I know I promised this a few weeks ago, but better late then never. Those
> on this list no doubt already are aware of the majority of what is written
> in this document, but I was just trying to pull all my notes together in
> one place so just skim the sections you find boring.  Note that the vast
> majority of the document has very little to do with the interface of the
> application but with core functionality which I feel we are skimming over. 
> When I first saw Dolphin I thought it was nice, clean, polished, and didn't
> crash (huge plus), but at the end of the day it had no real core feature
> that other file managers didn't already have.  I wasn't jumping out of my
> chair and telling my friends that they had to run it. We can have the best
> interface in the world, but if we don't do half of these features we will
> never get the number of users like we could.
>
> http://www.icefox.net/articles/dreamfilemanager.php
>
> -Benjamin Meyer

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