[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8745: Tracker not showing image dimensions.
- From: "anevilyak" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:13:15 -0000
#8745: Tracker not showing image dimensions.
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Reporter: jstressman | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by anevilyak):
Replying to [comment:3 jstressman]:
> And is it just me, or is it odd to have Tracker natively allow selecting
to show information that Tracker cannot actually show without installing
some third party application?
Tracker's role is simply a filesystem browser, it doesn't try to be
everything-and-the-kitchen-sink. It gets the information about what
attributes are potentially available for a file from the MIME database,
and that's what it makes available as options. The assumption has always
been that the apps writing the files will populate those attributes,
assuming they even apply. Ideally it would be nice to possibly extend the
mime sniffing mechanism to accept plugins to also extract information
where possible but that's not easily possible with Tracker's current
design (the code dates back to very early versions of BeOS and has quite a
lot of cruft as a consequence).
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8745#comment:4>
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