I really love Zeitgeist. The last two weeks, I've been working on some files and folders on an external harddisk. And I was a little surprised that the favorite folders in the dash weren't being updated, since I navigated there many times each day, and far more than those that are presented there. When I disconnect the disk, the files on that disk is hidden from the Files and folders lense, and when I connect it, they become visible. I love that behaviour and I would like that to work well for folders as well.
Then I discovered that the favorite folders in the dash are actually Nautilus bookmarks. I've always loved those bookmarks but now I found that it annoyed me. I'd much prefer the most frequently used folders from Zeitgeist, but then it occurred to me that it isn't really necessary to choose. It would be easy to say that the first five bookmarks in Nautilus should be equal to the five most frequently used folders from Zeitgeist. The rest of the bookmarks would be those that are defined in Nautilus, for instance. One of the big benefits of this, would be that the most relevant folders would always be available in Nautilus and in the Dash. For instance, you have an external harddrives with lots of files and directories, but you use some of them far more frequently than all others. Wouldn't it be nice if those folders automatically became available as favorite folders in the Dash and as bookmarks in Nautilus? Similarly, when you remove the external disk, then the bookmarks disappear from Nautilus since the folders they point to are no longer available. The most frequently used available folders would be available as bookmarks instead. In other words: it is safe to assume that you connect an external disk because you're going to do something with its content. So, the most frequently used files and folders on external disks should be given priority ahead of the most frequently used local content. When the external disk is no longer available, then there is no point of displaying bookmarks to them at all, since that would only give you an error in any case. Perhaps the average connection time of the external data sources could also play a role in this? Some people use an external disk just as an extra disk, so it doesn't make sense to give it any higher priority than the local disks. A disk that doesn't stay connected for longer periods of time would be more likely to be of more immediate use to you, so it should get a higher priority to make it's contents more easily available in the Dash and in Nautilus. If done correctly, I think it could challenge the auto-open feature since the content you're after would be so easily accessible. I think Zeitgeist provides these features as is, so it would only be a matter of syncing Nautilus against it. That would also make the Dash automatically display the "correct" favorite folders. What do you think? Jo-Erlend Schinstad _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
