[haiku-development] Re: Working on Caya and Mail app for GSoC
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:07:02 +0200
Le 30 mars 2011 à 17:56, Jérôme Duval a écrit :
> 2011/3/30 Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
>> I'm thinking Tracker and Deskbar provide not only the access to files and
>> show which apps are running, they are the desktop and the main interaction
>> point with the system level features. I have no problem extending the
>> meaning of an icon in Tracker to represent an object of information,
>> independend of its storage location being local or remote. I can even
>> imagine icons to have more meanings. There are already icons with more
>> virtual, detached from the FS meaning, like the Trash icon or the Disk icon.
>> I can also imagine attached devices to be displayed as icons on the desktop,
>> like a scanner or a printer. IMHO an icon certainly does not have to always
>> represent a local file.
>
> What this really means is you want Tracker to show other things than
> files. It doesn't technically require a FS, but would show the need
> for a new way of integration with Tracker.
Like the "shell extensions" in windows ?
Hmm, but how will other apps handle this ? :p
François.
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