Features request

[Robby Stephenson]

On Sunday 11 March 2007, Alfredo Quesada wrote:
> --- Eugene Pivnev <ti.eugene at gmail.com> escribió:
> > 1. Files: sizes in bytes
> > 2. Files: relative path
> > 3. All: X-links
> > 4. All: plugins
> >
> > Descriptions:
> >
> > 1. Files: sizes in bytes.
> > It's more preferable to store file sizes in bytes - not in human
> > readable format. Then I'll can count summary size of all or part of
> > my
> > files.
> >
> > 2. Files: relative path.
> > e.g. my Linux.tc is about my file garbadge - relative to
> > /mnt/shares/ftp...
> > Let me move this garbadge to /mnt/ftp/... Then I can add _all_ of
> > files as new - or hack Linux.tc handly...
> > It will be usual to make all "file/..." URLs relative to *.tc
> > pposition or it's parameter like "home path".
>
> I asked for this some time ago. It's very interesting.
>
> > 3. All: X-links.
> > Cross-links between records in the same collection.
> > e.g. I have file garbadge collection and have 2 files:
> > * winrar351.rar - WinRAR own
> > * Patch09.exe - crack (sorry :-) for this
> > It must be link between them. This is special record type, but, in
> > html export, can be found as "...#..." link (maybe...). Important: if
> > I insert link from Patch... to winrar... - I can found this link in
> > winrar... record. So this field linked w/ _both_ (or more) this
> > records.
>
> But what about adding this feature to the GUI? how do you propose that?
> (I mean, how to navigate between wired entries, for example.. and how
> to represent it graphically).
>
> > 4. All: plugins.
> > The idea is to make tellico more expandable by users. e.g.: let I
> > want
> > make new catalog type - Contacts. I want "insert" into my tellico 3
> > things:
> > * new XML-scheme ("FirstName-MiddleName-LastName-..." etc) - this
> > will
> > make new catalog _type_ (adding to builtin)
> > * new import plugins - import from vCards, kab etc
> > * new export - to vCards, html, XUL etc.
> > Each of them can be separate. e.g. I can insert plugin of exporting
> > existing file collection to XUL. Or importing Contact scheme w/o
> > vCard
> > imp/ex.
> > But the idea is to make _posibility_ of making plugins.
> > Variants are plugins in
> > python/[ba]sh/QtSript/QSA/KScript/Kommander_scripts etc.
>
> Plugins that would simplify the task of adding new data (specially if
> you have a custom collection) are VERY interesting. I vote for this! xD
> Anyway, adding a plugin interface is a good idea. Maybe people should
> add their proposal for this, so Robby could have a good set of options
> for making a good choice (imho).

To put it plainly, I don't know how. :)

Robby