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[Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whilst it's great that finding applications can now be done by tags, I 
was actually referring to replacing the whole folder/fie system with tags.
i.e. When I save something, I no longer select the folder to save it 
into, I simply choose from a list of pre-existinsg tags (defaults and 
ones I have previously created) or type in a box to add a new tag.
The single biggest advantage to me of this system is that I can place a 
single document in multiple locations.
One problem which would need to be overcome would be unique naming 
(since files are no longer separated by folders)

On the other hand, I haven't before explored how easy it is to create 
hardlinks. I just did. The answer is very easy (Middle click drag and drop)
Since this solves the multiple location issue, but without dragging up 
its own set of problems, perhaps I should just use this.

Matt

On 26/02/12 03:21, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 25 February 2012 21:43, Marco Trevisan (Treviño)<3v1n0@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Unity (or better the application lens ) already supports tags or keywords
> > the problem is that the great majority of applications doesn't provide them
> > in their desktop file using the X-GNOME-Keywords parameter.
> > I think that adding them to the applications is a great and easy way to
> > contribute to the ubuntu quality.
> >
> > Please read more at http://is.gd/RteZa5
> >
> > Michael Hall, I think you should try to involve the community on this as
> > it's a simple task, but it can give great results!
> That parameter has been renamed to just "Keywords". See
> /usr/share/applications/gnome-background-panel.desktop for an example.
> But it seems that doesn't actually work for the Dash.
>
> What does work is "X-AppInstall-Keywords=" like I added to a few of
> the gnome-games, such as gnomine, gtali, etc. I've opened
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/941231 requesting that Unity
> support the new "Keywords" entry, and I'll be following up with
> Software Center to do the same.
>
> Jeremy Bicha