Deskbar and leaftag, last-exit
Desktop 2.0
Just because the blog writer is open i feel the need to post a screenshot of deskbar working with leaftag (it’s all betaware, but.. it r0cks !)
Choose one or more files, right-click and Tag
Enter the tags with an Über cool dialog
Summon deskbar enter a tag, and voila ! Desktop 2.0 at your fingertips
Last exit
last-exit is a gtk implementation of the Last.fm (’social’ music streaming, gotta hate these web 2.0 buzzwords) client. Needless to say it rocks. Hard.
If you feel the need to save the song you’re currently listening on, you can use a secret patch (ask for it in IRC) that allows to dump the stream and nicely save the playing song when it has finished streaming under a given directory/artist - album - track.mp3
Last exit player window. with play/pause button, like/dislike, Tag this song, Journal this song, the song metadata, and a save button which does the saving voodoo.
Please note that 0.2 version might not work with recent gstreamers for unclear reasons, the bug has been filed in bugzilla.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:02
Isn’t “labels” a more friendly term than “tags”?
Sure tags are pretty much popular right now… but still labels a more universal term with basically the same meaning. IMHO, there’s just gains by using the label term.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:02
+1 for “labels”
March 6th, 2006 at 3:03
bad points for both really:
- tags ~ graffiti (ugly, spray-painted gibberish)
- labels ~ sociology & psycology (stereotyping; generally unhelpful)
but seriously, I think of the filename as a file’s label.
March 6th, 2006 at 3:03
+1 for tags. Consistency is key!
Looking at the screenie, is there integration with emblems?
March 6th, 2006 at 7:07
integration with emblems would be great (same general desire here: identify a file/folder more easily).
+1 for John.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:09
[…] I am not quite sure what Desktop 2.0 will bring us in the end, other then it together with Deskbar Applet and Beagle will bring queries to Gnome users as we know them from BeOS/ZETA. But with a far more user friendly approach, more like Dashboard in MacOS X. I am simply drewling and can hardly wait trying it out. Desktop 2.0 will bring us an easy way to tag information (add attributes) and the Deskbar Applet will be the easy approach to find back to the files/information. […]
March 6th, 2006 at 23:23
What IRC channel?
March 6th, 2006 at 23:23
Gimpnet, #deskbar or #gnome-hackers
March 6th, 2006 at 23:23
Thanks
March 7th, 2006 at 0:00
Scratch that. No gstreamer .10. Gotta wait till Dapper. Oh well.
April 19th, 2006 at 16:16
Nobody will share that patch or even say it exists. Psh… Lame…
April 26th, 2006 at 16:16
[…] Talking about gnome, there is a project already developing to tag everything everywhere - I do not really know how well it is integrated yet, but I think we will see a finally working and well integrated version in fall 2006 latest. The project is called leaftag and there is already a version working together with the taskbar search applet. That’s pretty close to what I would like to see in teh future on my desktop of my choice. This version, by the way, is GObject based - it looks to me like that could be used in KDE 4 also as long as we get some kind of qt/KDE backend for it. I’m not a real programmer so I’m not sure about that, but one main aim about tagging should be to have it cross-desktop! […]
August 12th, 2006 at 16:16
How do you get the “tags” context menu? I installed Leaftag but I don’t have that option, I thought it might be in leaftag-gnome-0.3.0. Also, with deskbar, searching for tags brings up an error dialog: tags:///video/ is not a valid location. I’m running ubuntu (dapper) with deskbar from apt.
Thanks!
September 9th, 2006 at 13:13
[…] I finally took the time to install and play with one such utility for linux, Leaftag. I’ve seen a couple of marvellous screenshots and screencasts (here and here and Keywords:Local Tags: leaftag, metadata, tagging, cataloging Technorati: leaftag, metadata, tagging, cataloging […]
September 16th, 2006 at 19:19
Of course no one will answer if you just ask for the patch. Hint, gently…
November 17th, 2006 at 19:19
[…] Leaftag became famous beacause it was the first solution providing tagging possibilities for the Linux desktop. The screenshots do look nice and go pretty much in a direction I would prefer - however, leaftag does not seem to index stuff by itself, you have to give away tags. This is a bit of a problem when you want to get an overview over a data storage with just too many files to tag by yourself. The even bigger problem however is that the changelog hasn’t seen anything new in a while. Also, I do not know any distribution shipping it yet. […]