FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Refactoring Tracker and Add Ons

["Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Mat,

Please consider your choice to create a tracker add-on.  Tracker add-ons
are really only useful for a very very small tiny set of operations.  In fact,
the Zip-O-Matic and FileType add-ons don't even fall into that category.
This is why in the OBOS version these add-ons are actually fully-fledged
applications.  As a convenience for users used to finding their functionality
in the add-ons menu, they also implement the (trivial) Tracker add-on
interface.  I like to call these applications that also implement that
interface "app-ons".

It sounds like your application would be similar to the Army Knife
application. (it's also an app-on)  Another alternative you might want
to consider is to use File Types to add the attribute you want to the
appropriate mime type.  If you double-click on the attribute in the
"Extra Attributes" box you can make extra attributes visable and you
can make it so they can be edited directly through Tracker's interface.

Andrew