v3 Plugin Files and Folders
  1. Usage Sketches
  2. Possible Milestones
    1. Write a File Plugin to DeepaMehta 3
    2. Extend a File Plugin to handle Folders
    3. Write an experimental file-browser implementation
    4. Write an extension for Gnome's Nautilus or KDE's Dolphin
  3. Interaction Sketch for Use Case A
  4. Interaction Sketch for Use Case B
  5. Interaction Sketch for Use Case C
  6. Questions

Usage Sketches

A enabling the user to use a folder window of an operating system like a deepamehta canvas and draw connections between files & folders

suggested focus is here: one folder window is tied to one topicmap with names of subfolders only

B enabling users to associate files and folders to Topics in a personal DeepaMehta installation

C enabling document management in the browser-client

Possible Milestones

state of 15th July: first wait for the 0.4 Release and then discuss what of this is the next step and could be part in a 0.4.1 Release

Write a File Plugin to DeepaMehta 3

Extend a File Plugin to handle Folders

Write an experimental file-browser implementation

Write an extension for Gnome's Nautilus or KDE's Dolphin

Interaction Sketch for Use Case A

file-browser could be invoked via: a) context menu of a folder symbol b) context menu in a folder background c) introduce a element in each filebrowser's "View"-Mode

re-sync map and folder on demand with rename, moving and deletion operations made in the underlying operating system

Interaction Sketch for Use Case B

actions could be triggered in the context menu of a file resp. folder

Interaction Sketch for Use Case C

Questions

  • Multiple Selection
  • Preview Generic Topics handle them as .txt-files
  • Indexing of Files with Lucene Tika (anyone interested in coding this integration for 0.4 ?)