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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: Viewing Files With Plugins UPDATEDRE: Viewing Files With Plugins UPDATED
From: TP Diffenbach <rockbox_at_diffenbach.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:56:35 -0500 There are fundamentally two kinds of handler/viewers/whatever: those that (potentially) modify the file -- these are "editors" -- and those that cannot modify the file -- these are "viewers" or "readers". As a user, I want to clearly be able to distinguish between actions that might modify my data, and those that are "safe". This is especially true with the Archos, because every file on it is a mirror of a file on my desktop machine. While that means that I can easily revert changes, it also means that I have to be careful to propagate changes to the pc copy, or have those changes overwritten by sync'ing software. (Yes, my sync'ing software can determine when the Archos copy is newer, and copy it back or alert me to choose the version I prefer, but I like keep things simple by making all copying one-way from PC to Archos.) It might be nice to explicitly separate "viewers" from "editors", and perhaps even to add a single, system-wide preference that governs whether editors keep a an unmodified backup, or add modified files to a list of modified files (again, yes, the sync'ing software can look for file dates or even changed content, but that means at least fstating 8000 mp3 files). If all editors where loaded by common code that provided write access and maintain backups or list automatically -- and only this loader provided pointers to writing functions -- we could do this without taxing plugin writers at all. -----Original Message----- From: owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se [mailto:owner-rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Björn Stenberg Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:02 AM To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se Subject: Re: Viewing Files With Plugins UPDATED Daniel Stenberg wrote: > Linus wants them to be 'handlers' or 'filters' but in my head those names > don't make it any clearer. Anyone else with any preferences on the name > issue? I think "viewers" is good. It's a clear enough description of what should go in that dir. "Handlers" or "filters" are not really any more informational. Sure, we can have VBRfix or Encrypt plugins in the "viewers" directory, which strictly aren't viewers. But I don't think we have to change the name just because of that. I do agree with Linus idea about calling the ON+PLAY option "Open with..." instead of "View with..." though. -- BjörnReceived on 2004-01-14 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |