On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 16:24, femorandeira
<femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think enforcing "search" against "browsing" could be a good
compromise [...]
If massively used and integrated in
the DE, the user could forget folders and just search what needed from
time to time instead of browsing his own folder hierarchy. [...]
A Spotlight-like application can completely substitute the file
manager
Then why are people still using the file browser much more often than
searching for their documents, even when the filesystem has remain
basically the same and search tools have kept on improving?
yeah, you're absolutely correct. The tools have improved a lot, but none of the technologies has been installed into the default distribution's UI in a generative place.
The first change we surely need to advance the semantic abilities of our DEs is to add a tagging system to the "Save as.." dialog window.