Re: [E-devel] Ideas which could be useful for EFM

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 01:11:12 -0700 Ben Ford <be...@ka...> babbled
profusely:

> Lyle Kempler wrote:
> 
> >* Ben Ford (be...@ka...) wrote:
> >
> >>>* Christian Kreibich (kre...@in...) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I like the idea. I would probably move the functionality into menus to
> >>>>avoid losing desktop space, like right-click->"File Visibility
> >>>>Settings"->"PDF only"|"GIF only"|"All" etc.
> >>>>
> >>I'd suggest checkboxes or a popup dialog box.  The dialog box sould have 
> >>the pattern-matching text entry in it.  This would allow you to select 
> >>more than one type to appear.
> >>
> >
> >Yeah.. only I was thinking it'd get saved in that directory's db, so you
> >can have them forever.
> >
> 
> Yeah, that'd be slick.  How bout this, you'd right click anywhere in a 
> directory view and select "Filter ..."
> 
> You'd then get a dialog like below (pardon if the ASCII art sucks).  The 
> list of file types would be built from the files in that directory. 
>  You'd have an option for each file type found.  You could also type in 
> patterns that could be regex's or shell expansion and have the option to 
> save that query for later useage.
> 
> Questions:
>     Do the queries get saved in that directory or will they be available 
> anywhere?
>     How do we determine file types?  Extensions, mime-types, magic numbers
> 
> =============== Filter File Types ================
> |                                                |
> |  []  File type 1                               |
> |  []  File type 2                               |
> |  []  File type 3                               |
> |  []  File type 4                               |
> |  []  Presaved Query          [  delete  ]      |
> |  []  Presaved Query          [  delete  ]      |
> |                                                |
> |  []  [_______________]  []  Save this Query    |
> |                                                |
> |                                                |
> |  [    OK    ]  [   HELP   ]  [   CANCEL    ]   |
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> And if the list of filetypes was large, it would spill over into two 
> columns like such:
> 
> 
> =============== Filter File Types ================
> |                                                |
> |  []  File type 1        []  File Type 5        |
> |  []  File type 2        []  File Type 6        |
> |  []  File type 3        []  File Type 7        |
> |  []  File type 4                               |
> |  []  Presaved Query          [  delete  ]      |
> |  []  Presaved Query          [  delete  ]      |
> |                                                |
> |  []  [_______________]  []  Save this Query    |
> |                                                |
> |                                                |
> |  [    OK    ]  [   HELP   ]  [   CANCEL    ]   |
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> (BTW, I apologize if my mailer rapes the formatting . . . I tried, I 
> really did . . . )

sounds good. but lets not leap ahead of ourselves... :)
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