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[Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 19:54 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:58, Diego Moya <turingt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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/
> 
> thanks all!
> i'll see if i can get some useful ideas from testing those concepts
> already available as packages. smart and easy file management is a
> major issue our "leaders" are trying to address now, so i heard.
> please keep thoughts and ideas coming, unless of course anybody here
> objects to the topic.
> 
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Tracker already has the ability to tag files in Nautilus, but I don't
think there's a UI anywhere for navigating those just yet (you can
search from them). You can try the latest tracker for yourself by
installing it from [1]. :-)

Regards
Chris

[1] - https://edge.launchpad.net/~tracker-team/+archive/tracker

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