Hi Pietro, On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 23:25, fain182 <fain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/11 frederik.nn...@gmail.com <frederik.nn...@gmail.com>: > > here imo, especially considering the "fileless" paradigm we are trying to > > introduce into userland. > What is it? can i find it in a document? > ( BTW defining something by negation, puzzles me ) > i was very proud to find an extra thread for a simple punchline in packed into another mail... moving away from the necessity to confront the user with abstract technical metaphors has always been a goal. Especially the "File" metaphor has been keeping developers from working on solutions that really address document type, content and useful display of metainformation. Take a song for example. You're looking for "Chill Me Out" from the band "AC/BC". Would you (as a user) prefer to search for an *.mp3 or *.mp4 in several folders, or wouldn't it be easier to have the computer manager your music for you and you would only have to type in a title or name? That's where things are heading to on the long run, it's a long-term goal to give the computer something in the near of context awareness, a building block of intelligence. This is quite close, but implementation is a b*tch as we all know, so i'll rather keep my mouth sh#t until i have more useful news for you ;) until then, please enjoy the work being done "upstream" by Seth; it's called GNOME Storage: http://people.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ greetings ;)
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