no-herd
vapier@gentoo.org
Mike Frysinger
Evidence - file-manager
* Sports different views so whatever you are doing, you'll have the most
intuitive grasp on your files:
o icon-view (efm-like and fully themable)
o browser-view -- perfect for those MP3/Ogg directories!
Do you ever get fed up going down two levels (from music to artist to
album) for each song you want to add to a playlist, then going back to
music for the next song? Then this is for you.
o tree-view
* Also features a "micro-shell" (a la efm-"typebuffer") for
keyboard-afficionados
o Selected a group of unlikely-named files in the GUI, then apply a
shell-command to them!
o Pick some files and paste that (primary) selection into your
favourite shell or editor!
* May be built against enlightenment 17 libraries for state-of-the-art eye-candy
and pluggable themes.
o Compose icons out of any number of evas objects such as images or
gradients, with on-the-fly tinting/shading and alpha composition.
o Use jpg, png, or ebg.edb (e17 background database made with ebony,
optionally composed on top of pseudo-transparency) as a backdrop
o Plugins are determined by a theme-file. Support for features not used
by a given theme (e.g. pseudo-transparency) need not be loaded. Make themes
as outlandish eye-candy as they get, or save loads of memory if you don't!
No bloat!
o Plugins can be built/added at a later date without having to rebuild
the main application.
* Supports plugins for custom Meta-Data such as MP3/Ogg song titles, picture
dimensions, and more.
o Comes with example plugins for Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, and images, turning
evidence into a MP3/ID3/Vorbis tag editor right out of the box.
o Plugins for your own file-types are easily written.
o Plugins are loaded on-demand. For example, the MP3 plugin will not be
loaded until you access the first MP3 file. It will also be unloaded if
haven't touched a MP3-file in a while. No bloat.
o Plugins can be built/added at a later date without having to rebuild
the main application.
* Pluggable backends. If you want to go above and beyond UNIX/POSIX file-ops,
use an alternate backend supporting efsd (the enlightened file-system daemon),
GNOME-VFS or kioslaves (forthcoming).
o Default "POSIX" backend supports Access Control Lists and Extended
Attributes.
o Plugins can be built/added at a later date without having to rebuild
the main application.