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Re: Here’s your Media Browser right here

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:54:07 -0000

I think you're expecting too much from what is essentially a glorified "file picker." It shouldn't be a global disk searcher. Not only would that be slow, it would include too much junk. I certainly wouldn't want to have to choose from among all the supporting JPEG and TIFF images included in application bundles.

I think Dan's suggestion is good, especially when taken to the logical extreme of incorporating it into the standard file picker. Then you would have a file picker that is capable of:

1. Browsing particular subsets of the disk.
2. Browsing well-known collections (such as "iTunes Music).
3. Searching within any focused collection.
4. Displaying selectable items in a context-sensitive presentation, e.g. as a list of songs, or as a matrix of thumbnails.

The Windows standard file picker, at least, has a built-in thumbnail tiling view.

I also think you overstate by quite a bit the ease of throwing something like this together. If you can do it in an afternoon, then *please* do so and share it with the rest of us. This is the kind of thing that has a lot of tiny facets, each of which has to work perfectly in order to be a satisfactory generalized solution. Just getting the selectable, resizeable, tiling matrix bug free would probably take a fair bit of work, unless you have one lying around.

Re: Here’s your Media Browser right here

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:41:43 -0000

I totally agree that every developer shouldn't write their own. Whether Apple or a 3rd party comes up with something even half as useful as what's been discussed here, it will be a big win!

Re: Here’s your Media Browser right here

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:15:29 -0000

Awesome!

Re: -url

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:24:31 -0000

Cool! The only problem on my machine was that the output of sed doesn't strip out the "URL: " prefix as expected. I managed to get the behavior by changing it to this:

info $1 | grep 'URL: ' | sed 's/URL: //'

Also somewhere along the line you got smart quotes in your HTML, so the example won't work without editing after copy/pasting into an rc file. I fixed it in the line above by using ' instead of the apostrophe character.

Re: Us vs Them

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:08:23 -0000

Nice summary. I have been reading along with several of the bloggers' outrage and experience a mix of empathy for Karelia and agreement that the "silent install" factor is bad.

But heck, the "silent dial home" problem is still way worse than this. I run Little Snitch and am always amazed to observe the amount of net traffic applications think they can sneak in without my concern.

Re: iMeem

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:53:35 -0000

Thanks for pointing this out. I probably wouldn't have bothered to sign up for an account just to try out the app, if you hadn't posted a teaser!

Mono looks cool, but let's not give more credit here than is due. The application *is* a Cocoa app, that's why it looks like one. They are clearly developing the UI independently from the back-end. In other words, the part that looks good and like a Mac took work.

I found this page on their site describing "Dumbarton," their bridging mechanism between ObjC and C#:

http://allan.imeem.com/blogentry/gbgC7kTg

Re: iMeem

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:02:35 -0000

Yes! iMeem deserves credit. Lots of it - for choosing to do the UI in native Cocoa :)

Now if only this bridge would let me deploy a Cocoa-based UI on Windows!

Re: Toxic Progress Indicator

Daniel Jalkut — Fri, 19 May 2006 15:37:41 -0000

Thanks again, Jon! This is awesome. I think it looks especially nice when the fill and frame colors are the same hue at different intensities.

And you're 95% of the way toward "NSPeaceProgressIndicator." :)