[KimDaBa] Want to try a directory browser in Kimdaba ?

[Florian Lindner]

Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 19:32 schrieb Jesper K. Pedersen:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 15:54, Jean-Michel FAYARD wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | as you know, the point of Kimdaba is that a folder hierarchy is too
> | rigid and doesn't provide enough info to find easily your pictures
> | when you begin to have a lot of them.
> | Kimdaba solves this problem by allowing to set whatever property you
> | want on each picture.
> |
> | But I think that many people like me do keep a certain structure in
> | the folder hierarchy.
> | For me, it's as simple as <date>_little_comment :
> |
> | /autre/Photos
> |
> | |-- 2002-06-06_mariage_cecile
> | |-- 2002-06-23_mariage_cecile
> | |-- 2002-06-24_Photos_du_rep
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | So, even if the folder hierarchy is too rigid, that is still an
> | interesting way to filter your pictures.
> |
> | My basic idea is to simply add a << Property >> named << Folder >>,
> | just like Persons, Locations and Keywords, but which will be set
> | automatically for you[1].
> |
> | I've done that manually for the demo.
> | http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~upaxe/kimdaba_with_folder_demo.tar
> |
> | Use it like that :
> |
> | $ tar xvf kimdaba_with_folder_demo.tar
> | $ kimdaba -c kimdaba-demo-jmfayard/index.xml
> |
> | Comment and flames welcome !
>
> To be honst, I'm not too happy about it, simply because with deep
> structures you will see lots of items in the listbox.

I think that not all subdirectories should be displayed, but only direct 
children. For example if you're in /, there would the entries like sbin, etc, 
var, home
If you go to home, you would have florian, jesper, ...  ;-)
Or did I misunderstand you?

>
> What we really need instead is a real integrated browser, which will indeed
> not be trivial to implement.
> This is still on my TODO list, so dont despair.