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Dolphin property page plugins

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anoneemouse
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Dolphin property page plugins

Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:20 pm
Idea as follows:

When right clicking and going to the properties of a file or folder you can see some pretty basic information like privileges and the file size.

Since KDE has a mime type system it would be nice if a plugin could be loaded for a mimetype. For instance:

- MP3 files can have an ID3 tag editor property page.
- Office documents can display info from embedded metadata like author and description and allow the user to edit these fields.
- Image files can show compression levels,bit depth, dimensions and embedded camera information(EXIF data?)
- Source files for different programming languages can display respective documentation(like java-doc, python doc etc)

The design of this functionality should be done in such a way that there is only one extra property page(to keep it consistent). If it's something advanced the property page can have sub tabs. It should also be built in such a way that these pages are easy to develop possibly with scripting languages.


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