GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 85441
Folders should be able to handle almost any data set.
Last modified: 2010-06-25 13:17:40 UTC
Most folders right now display a single directory. Obvious exceptions to this are the trash and the ill-named "Start Here" folder. As the simplest extension to this, it should be possible to create a folder which contains the results of a filesystem query. For example, one might create a folder called "Music" to be filled with every music file available on the filesystem. Of course, it should be possible to make subfolders there based on a narrower search, such as "all music file by MyFavoriteBand". But, this should not be limited to the file system. Lots of useful data isn't stored as files per se, but exists in some distant database to be gathered by queries. It should be possible to create a folder which contains the results of such a query - perhaps each as bookmark with some sort of local cache. An exemplary use of this would be for software development: a folder could be created which contains the results of a CVS checkout and a bugzilla query for a particular product.
I like this idea. Didn't nautilus use to do something similar to this when medusa was around with search results. Seems like the natural way to implement this. Basically creating folders from search results. Maybe we could combine this idea, with my suggestion for a favorites folder (see bug 82104). perhaps this search result folders would all be stored in the favorites folder for easy access. Also taking this another way, it would be cool if files and folders context menus had an "add to => folder*", where folder* could be vfolders (for lack of a better term) for storing files to burn to a cd (integrated cd burning would be awesome and is a really cool feature in both explorer and finder)or for storing files to be compressed in an archive file etc. greg: totally unrelated, but want to join me in my quest to kill start-here see bug 83428 (note start-here is just a url that redirects to an actual folder on the hard drives, its not a vfolder like applications)
Removing the usability keyword; usefulness != usability and we shouldn't be trying to pollute the keyword like that. Otherwise, sounds like a cool idea. :)
Not-quite-duplicates at: Bug # 48530 # 48633
Notes: Changed keyword to GNOMEVER2.5
This is an old report with little progress (though we do support saved searches now). Seems to me that things have moved on since this proposal. I'm going to close this. Let me know if you object. :)