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["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Felipe,

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 16:24, femorandeira <femorandeira@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> 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?


yeah, you're absolutely correct. The tools have improved a lot, but none of
the technologies has been installed into the default distribution's UI in a
generative place.
The first change we surely need to advance the semantic abilities of our DEs
is to add a tagging system to the "Save as.." dialog window.