Re: [Ayatana] "fileless" paradigm

[Roberto Guido <bob4job@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:02 +0100, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> any more variations of this [CONTAINER] - [CONTENT] metaphor?
> 
Lobotomy - http://lobotomy-project.org/
The basic concept: container-less browsing, no folders, only "queries"
against the store (of course managed and assisted by the user interface,
not everyone can write SQL or SPARQL every time he needs a
content ;-) ).
That has been a "conceptual" project of mine for several years, and had
many evolutions; not many code has been produced, just some document and
elucubration now scattered all over the web.

> Which concept can serve these needs?
> 
I think enforcing "search" against "browsing" could be a good
compromise: we need files just because we cannot imagine any other form
of contents aggregation (we need to put the bytes somewhere...), but
today we already have tools to go after folders.
Desktop indexing is a reality, but barely used by user applications:
both Tracker and Nepomuk are available and stable, I can count very
little project running over them. 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.
For example, the "Save" option can just become "save those contents in a
directory choosen by software, not by me, and index it so I can retrieve
it". A Spotlight-like application can completely substitute the file
manager, and we already have specific examples of folder-less contents
navigation ( http://live.gnome.org/Soylent ).



p.s.: I was one of the Itsme developers ;-)
http://itsme.it/news/2009/02/09/we-doubled-our-tech-force/

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