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Re: [Ayatana] media vs apps



On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 17:56 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Personally, if I were to click on a button labeled 'Photos and
> Videos', I would expect to find those files there rather than editors,
> etc.
> 
> 
> That said, if I were to click on a button labeled 'Music', I would
> expect to find my music player there, because when interacting with my
> music files, I prefer to do so with the abstraction provided by a
> media player. That also said, I don't do a lot of work with pictures
> and videos, so I don't know what someone that did would prefer.

After all what you are saying is that you don't expect to be presented
with a bunch of apps or the categorized output
of /usr/share/applications, but with content, managed.

Am i correct here?

If i click on "Music", i expect to find music. What or who manages it is
left to the designer of the DE.