Comment 2 for bug 351108

Neil,

Sounds excellent and a clever amplification of the idea. (Though I guess in my scheme you could load up your DVD resident files into the unwanted search results and organize them in virtual folders such as /dvd/037/, etc.) Usually I make my grandiose suggestions like this and am rewarded only with thunderous silence, so I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking along these line. Even better if you're the kind of person who actually does something about their ideas instead of just banging on about them like me. Heh.

Do you think you might incorporate my suggestions of having the option to display the unwanted/ignored search results in a visibly distinctive way, say light gray text, rather than hiding them entirely necessarily? I didn't think of it at the time I wrote my magnum opus here, but that might be a good way to deal with the ignored/unwanted files when you are looking through someone else's file list. That way you could still see, in total, what they were sharing which can be helpful in understanding the way they've organized their files, but at the same time discriminate between the stuff you already had or knew you didn't want, versus new/unknown files.

Do you intend that offlined files would be treated as ignored when those same files came up in a search? I think that would be the way to go.

Another thought that occurs to me is that this sort of facility of managing offline files and other "files I have the hash of, but not the file itself" really deserves to be it's own application which applications like DC++ and similar could interface so they don't all have to build it in and users wouldn't have to maintain duplicate data. Maybe someday.