Add as a plugin or touch the core system?

[Oscar Miras]

Hi ,

First of all, sorry for my English: I'm studying to improve it, really.
My name's Oscar Miras, and I'm a student working on my final project degree; at the Informatics Barcelona's School.
Me and my tutor are deciding in wich project we are going to work on. We're checking mainly two programs: Gqview ( now Geequie) and Thunar.

We want to add a new feature to make navigation between files more intuitive . For instants, one example is to group by date all the pics shown on the navigation windows of Thunar, in a similar way that Fotolog does: showing it as calendar format , emphasing on the dates where the major amount of pics were created. The reason is that when Thunar ( and more others image navigation programs ) have a large amount of pics, it's quite difficult to find the exact picture you are trying to find( even using thumbails)
Moreover, people do not usually change the default name of a picture when they make one with their camera. We also may color the days of the calendar where more photos has occurred.

We're thinking also about using other meta-data information that multimedia files can give us, so maybe we colud use the camera time and date to sort the photos.
I'm talking all the time about multimedia files,but everything i'm talking about could also be applied to other types of files  . There have been just two exemples; the project has just started ;).

The main question is: if we finally decided to add this feature to Thunar, should it be part of the core of Thunar (and maybe make it as a 'switch option'), or does it look like more like a plugin? Is it really so difficult to modify the core of Thunar ( we want to finish project on July, working on it 4 hours a day )

Thank you very much for you time!
Sorry again for my English!
Óscar.

PD: I'm using new Debian Lenny with XFCE :P

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[Jannis Pohlmann-3]

Hey,

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:58:29 +0100
Oscar Miras <oscar.miras@...> wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> First of all, sorry for my English: I'm studying to improve it,
> really. My name's Oscar Miras, and I'm a student working on my final
> project degree; at the Informatics Barcelona's School.
> Me and my tutor are deciding in wich project we are going to work on.
> We're checking mainly two programs: Gqview ( now Geequie) and Thunar.
>
> We want to add a new feature to make navigation between files more
> intuitive . For instants, one example is to group by date all the
> pics shown on the navigation windows of Thunar, in a similar way that
> Fotolog does: showing it as calendar format , emphasing on the dates
> where the major amount of pics were created. The reason is that when
> Thunar ( and more others image navigation programs ) have a large
> amount of pics, it's quite difficult to find the exact picture you
> are trying to find( even using thumbails) Moreover, people do not
> usually change the default name of a picture when they make one with
> their camera. We also may color the days of the calendar where more
> photos has occurred.
>
> We're thinking also about using other meta-data information that
> multimedia files can give us, so maybe we colud use the camera time
> and date to sort the photos.
> I'm talking all the time about multimedia files,but everything i'm
> talking about could also be applied to other types of files  . There
> have been just two exemples; the project has just started ;).
>
> The main question is: if we finally decided to add this feature to
> Thunar, should it be part of the core of Thunar (and maybe make it as
> a 'switch option'), or does it look like more like a plugin? Is it
> really so difficult to modify the core of Thunar ( we want to finish
> project on July, working on it 4 hours a day )

So, whate you are talking about would be an additional view that could
be used as an alternative to the icon, list and detail views? Right now
this is only possible inside Thunar, not via a plugin.

Cheers,
Jannis


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[Oscar Miras]

Yeah, that's right. something similar to this I have recently noticed that has been add on Geequie . They call it "Calendar view".
thanks for the information: I would have to work inside Thunar if I want to implement this feature.

2009/3/4 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@...>

Hey,

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:58:29 +0100
Oscar Miras <oscar.miras@...> wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> First of all, sorry for my English: I'm studying to improve it,
> really. My name's Oscar Miras, and I'm a student working on my final
> project degree; at the Informatics Barcelona's School.
> Me and my tutor are deciding in wich project we are going to work on.
> We're checking mainly two programs: Gqview ( now Geequie) and Thunar.
>
> We want to add a new feature to make navigation between files more
> intuitive . For instants, one example is to group by date all the
> pics shown on the navigation windows of Thunar, in a similar way that
> Fotolog does: showing it as calendar format , emphasing on the dates
> where the major amount of pics were created. The reason is that when
> Thunar ( and more others image navigation programs ) have a large
> amount of pics, it's quite difficult to find the exact picture you
> are trying to find( even using thumbails) Moreover, people do not
> usually change the default name of a picture when they make one with
> their camera. We also may color the days of the calendar where more
> photos has occurred.
>
> We're thinking also about using other meta-data information that
> multimedia files can give us, so maybe we colud use the camera time
> and date to sort the photos.
> I'm talking all the time about multimedia files,but everything i'm
> talking about could also be applied to other types of files  . There
> have been just two exemples; the project has just started ;).
>
> The main question is: if we finally decided to add this feature to
> Thunar, should it be part of the core of Thunar (and maybe make it as
> a 'switch option'), or does it look like more like a plugin? Is it
> really so difficult to modify the core of Thunar ( we want to finish
> project on July, working on it 4 hours a day )

So, whate you are talking about would be an additional view that could
be used as an alternative to the icon, list and detail views? Right now
this is only possible inside Thunar, not via a plugin.

Cheers,
Jannis

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[Mike Massonnet-4]

Le Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:39:05 +0100,
Oscar Miras <oscar.miras@...> a écrit :

> Yeah, that's right. something similar to this I have recently noticed
> that has been add on Geequie . They call it "Calendar view".
> thanks for the information: I would have to work inside Thunar if I
> want to implement this feature.

Yep, but please bottom post, well, follow the stream because it is
horrible to mix between many post methods.

You should have a look at the compact list, it is a view that has been
added afterwards as a contribution (there are mails on the thunar-dev
archive mailing-list). So now it's up to you to RTSL :)

Mike
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