File Browser

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Overview

This article defines the File Browser Application, an application designed for the OpenMoko platform. This is a Native Stylus-Based application.

Use Cases

Here are some possible use cases:

  • Keep and open attachments separately from their emails.
  • Free space on the phone.
  • View which files take up the most space on the phone using something like Konqueror's visual file size display (every file is a rectangle proportional in size to the file's size on disk).
  • Keep and open downloaded files (via a web browser) separately from their
  • Delve into the innards of the PIM storage without having to launch separate apps for each part of the storage (possibly).
  • Delve into the innards of the phone's actual filesystem.
  • Browse my own files and data without seeing the phone's filesystem when I don't want to do so.

Layout Components

(TBD)

Application Area

Key Features:

  • (Standard Stuff)

On Tap

  • select and show details

On Tap with hold

  • open menu with
    • open associated application
    • open terminal in this directory (for a directory)
    • (standard operations)

There should be the ability to view a directory with file sizes displayed like in Konqueror.

Footer Area

Status Bar

(TBD)

Constraints

(TBD)

Sessions

(TBD)

Architectural Details

(TBD)

Implementation Recommendations

  • There should maybe be some ways to look inside PIM storage in an app-independent way.

(TBD)

Interactions

(TBD)

Unresolved Issues

(TBD)

Questions and Answers

(TBD)

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