On Nov 12, 2010, at 11:07 AM, "frederik.nn...@gmail.com"
<frederik.nn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)
The file less paradigm works well for music, where there are only a few ways in
which everybody has it organized: artist, album, and genre. This explains why
most people want to use a library managing program for their music.
However with documents, the methods of organizing become so complex, a file
less paradigm would be hard to create.
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