Re: [Ayatana] "Unsaved state" and the Cloud

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:

> +1 to the meme of autosaving, autoversioning, and persistent undo (undo
> that survives quit).
> +1 to the idea of automatic replication.
> 
> I'm pretty certain this should not be per-file, though. The idea should
> be to convey the state of the device in general, and perhaps of an
> individual application.

I'd love to be able to check a file (or set of files) and see a list of
the storage-locations (devices, partitions, online services ...) it
exists on. With schedules for sync (immediately, once an hour, ...), and
progress indication.

Ideally we would get rid of the implicit definition of where a file is
stored via its place in the filesystem tree, as this currently leads to
2 possible outcomes on dragging files around.

Perhaps something like that could be married to an inheritance scheme,
where you define the rules for a set, to then create
exceptions/changes/additions on lower levels.


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