[LAU] file browser in qtractor?

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:00 +0200, Mysth-R wrote:
> 
>> Didn't know it was ok to drag'n drop from any files browser. This is
>> not a feature that comes to my mind obviously.
>> In fact I am a agree with Grammostola Rosea, it could be cool to have
>> a file browser directly inside of Qtractor, or at least a "preview"
>> button in the import sound window. If I remember, the software
>> Specimen use this preview button and Ardour too.
> 
> Ardour has the preview button on its own file browser but that is mostly
> because Ardour's file browser also supports tagging files with arbitrary
> metadata.
> 
> Like QTractor, Ardour supports drag-n-drop from file browsers that
> support the correct protocol (i.e. almost all of them), and like Rui I
> think this is a nicer solution than adding it to every app, unless the
> app adds more "non-standard" features to the browser.
> 

fwiw, qtractor also has a preview button (audio only): it's that little 
blue triangle at the bottom-right of the audio file list widget ;) 
double-clicking on an audiofile item also triggers the preview (or 
should it be pre-listening?) feature

cheers
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