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[Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx>]

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/