[KimDaBa] Idea for a small enhancement

[jedd]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:28 am, Martin Höller wrote:
 ] 1) Enhance the tooltip-preview (the ctrl-t thing) by this new properties.
 ]    Konqueror for example shows these (and some other) properties as
 ]    tooltip when in icon view.

 I prefer this one.

 Amarok (to audio what KimDaBa is to image management) has a feature
 where you can customize what appears in the pop-up (and also where it
 sits on the screen).  So you bang in something like:
 %Artist% - {%Album%}
 %Songname% - %Length%

 Stuff in braces {} is only displayed if the data exists.  CR's are
 respected.

 Something like this, with the default set to what's currently showing
 with the ctrl-i thing, would work really well.  A plug-in-ish approach
 would make it easier to add in things like resolution, file size,
 path, etc.  For people who want less information, the customizable
 format approach means they can strip out things they don't want
 to see.  Entirely unsure how easy it would be to rip out the 'put the
 box right here' code from Amarok, say.  Transparency and other
 features are .. swanky, but make people go 'oooh ahhh' and then run
 off and grab a Debian CD.  Which is no bad thing.

 But I appear to be rambling, which probably is.

 Jedd.