On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:25, fain182
<fain182@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2010/11/11 frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>:
> here imo, especially considering the "fileless" paradigm we are trying to
> introduce into userland.
What is it? can i find it in a document?
( BTW defining something by negation, puzzles me )
i was very proud to find an extra thread for a simple punchline in packed into another mail...
moving away from the necessity to confront the user with abstract technical metaphors has always been a goal. Especially the "File" metaphor has been keeping developers from working on solutions that really address document type, content and useful display of metainformation.
Take a song for example.
You're looking for "Chill Me Out" from the band "AC/BC".
Would you (as a user) prefer to search for an *.mp3 or *.mp4 in several folders, or wouldn't it be easier to have the computer manager your music for you and you would only have to type in a title or name?
That's where things are heading to on the long run, it's a long-term goal to give the computer something in the near of context awareness, a building block of intelligence.
This is quite close, but implementation is a b*tch as we all know, so i'll rather keep my mouth sh#t until i have more useful news for you ;)
until then, please enjoy the work being done "upstream" by Seth; it's called GNOME Storage:
greetings ;)