[openbeos] Re: Tracker and default options
- From: "Craig Magina" <craig.magina@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:46:44 -0400
On 8/2/07, Truls Becken <truls.becken@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Salvatore Benedetto <emitrax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've just watched this, and I'm pretty impressed.
> >
> > http://www.skyos.org/media/videos/Viewer/Viewer.html
> >
> > it would be nice to have something like this in Haiku.
>
> Exactly which aspect of this do you mean? The sidebar? Large previews?
> Tabbed interface?
>
> I'm not so sure the sidebar is worth the effort. Playing back movies
> in a preview area never struck me as particularly useful, it's
> slightly better for images. The rest of the features in the sidebar
> are already covered one way or another, right? For the most part, I
> feel that a tabbed interface could be implemented at the window
> handling level, so all applications would benefit, but the jury is
> still out for me on that one.
>
> The live filter of what is listed in the viewer is a nice touch, though.
>
>
Agreed on the movie previews, at least for actively playing the movie.
Image previews and maybe a snapshot from the movie would be useful
for identifying it, for those of us who never changed the name after
downloading it from 005245.xxx.
The filter is a great idea and with the way major OS's are going with
file meta data, it almost seems needed.
Tabs are ok, I only really use them in web browsing. One feature of
Konqueror I like is the ability to split the window. It gives a
cleaner view when transferring files from one place to another.
One feature of KDE I have always liked is its reuse of things, which
stems from QT. I think Konsole has been reused in just about every
KDE application. The importance being that in whatever application I
am using, if it has a terminal, chances are it's Konsole and my
settings have followed, so I don't have to configure a whole new
terminal.
--
Craig Magina
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