On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 19:54 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:58, Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 23 April 2010 06:19, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > >> how about tagging files and folders in nautilus? > >> i wouldn't have to move them around much anymore, if i could attach > >> tags to them. > >> > >> imagine you don't have to move your files around physically anymore, > >> you just navigate them via tagging.. > >> > >> on a fs level that would be horrendous i suppose, perhaps somebody > >> already thought of something of the sort with some type of > >> meta-filesystem running within a file management service ? > >> > > > > AFAIK the Tracker [1][2] project already does this. They even have > > some support for Nautilus integration [3]. Tracker is based on Nepomuk > > [4], a project to create a semantic metadata back-end that supports > > all kind of relational information, not just tags. > > > > > > [1] http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html > > [2] http://live.gnome.org/Tracker/WhatIsTracker > > [3] http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/diary/4.html > > [4] http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/ > > thanks all! > i'll see if i can get some useful ideas from testing those concepts > already available as packages. smart and easy file management is a > major issue our "leaders" are trying to address now, so i heard. > please keep thoughts and ideas coming, unless of course anybody here > objects to the topic. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp Tracker already has the ability to tag files in Nautilus, but I don't think there's a UI anywhere for navigating those just yet (you can search from them). You can try the latest tracker for yourself by installing it from [1]. :-) Regards Chris [1] - https://edge.launchpad.net/~tracker-team/+archive/tracker
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