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[Mike Sandman <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't you achieve this using a user space file system? That seems quite
a bit less drastic. Keep in mind that we still want there to be 1
underlying operating system running across different hardware including
desktops and servers
On Feb 24, 2013 6:06 PM, "Matt Richardson" <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Since Ubuntu-Touch is a new system we have a potential to replace
> files/folders with tags.
>
> 1) Why?
> Tags offer a much more flexible file management system than files/folders
> because they allow a single file to exist in multiple locations, without
> the use of symlinks.
>
> 2) To tackle the obvious issue: The current filesystem and operating
> system are built on the folder/files system, as are almost all existing
> applications.
> The idea of the tag based system would not be to replace the folder/files
> system as far as the system is concerned, merely to hide it in day to day
> use.
> My idea would be that the tags would operate as follows:
>
> When saving/creating a file any number of tags can be selected as well as
> a name. By default the 'username' tag would be selected.
> The actual filesystem would place the file in /home/username/tag1/tag2/
> Tags beyond tag 2 would not be included in the folder hierarchy. A
> database (similar to zeitgeist) would also be updated to contain the full
> list of tags and files
> When selecting files (file manager or open dialog) all of the available
> tags would be listed. When a tag is selected, the list updates to show tags
> which contain files matching the first tag
> In order to show root files the "system" tag would have to be selected.
> The file manager would then switch to standard file/folder view, since we
> can't easily update the root filesystem
>
> Hopefully that all makes sense
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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