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[femorandeira <femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:14:12 +0100, Roberto Guido <bob4job@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> I think enforcing "search" against "browsing" could be a good
> compromise [...]
> 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. [...]
> A Spotlight-like application can completely substitute the file
> manager

Then why are people still using the file browser much more often than
searching for their documents, even when the filesystem has remain
basically the same and search tools have kept on improving?


Felipe