Yes I do! Thanks, Frederik!
For what it's worth, dmedia will shortly have nice video management. This is a preview of the HTML5 UI that James Raymond has been working on -
http://cdn.novacut.com/dmedia0.2-preview/browser.html
But more generally, I'm hoping dmedia can help get this important user data (and metadata) out of application-specific silos. This fits well with the overall Ayatana focus on the "space between applications". For example, I'd like to see cool social features integrated with dmedia, which would allow this social use in any context, not just in the context of a single application (Banshee, Shotwell, etc).
I think the use case Frederick brought up is ripe with possibility. The problem I see with *only* relying on domain specific manager apps is when the "stuff" you're looking for spans multiple domains. For example, I think Zeitgeist has clearly demonstrated the value of an aggregate chronological view. And I think that view needs to be more than just a list of recently accessed media files... we need the metadata too. With rich metadata (like what dmedia stores), we can be much smarted about how and what we present in a chronological view.
I think the content rather than application focus is a very exciting idea, Frederick. If you have ideas about specific metadata that would be needed for the use case you have in mind, I'd happily add it to dmedia.
Plus, dmedia is a *distributed* media library. We can provide an aggregate view into the user's content and activity across *all* their devices, which is pretty cool, IMHO. This bug is probably the best explanation of the core distributed features, the metadata we will store to enable it -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/dmedia/+bug/680467