Re: [Ayatana] "fileless" paradigm (was: File menu)

To: "frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: [Ayatana] "fileless" paradigm (was: File menu)

From: Appi <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:39:58 -0600

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On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:07 AM, "frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:
http://people.gnome.org/~seth/storage/

greetings ;)

The file less paradigm works well for music, where there are only a few ways in which everybody has it organized: artist, album, and genre. This explains why most people want to use a library managing program for their music.

However with documents, the methods of organizing become so complex, a file less paradigm would be hard to create.