On 2010-12-16 7:34 AM, "femorandeira" <femorande...@igalia.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:14:12 +0100, Roberto Guido <bob4...@gmail.com> 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
This happens because a great deal of cruft has made the file browser an everyday thing instead of a tool for people who care about raw files. Applications are connected together by files, and with today's file chooser dialogs we directly expose that to users. Want to share a photo you organized in Shotwell with one of your IM contacts? Too bad: it is going to turn into a "file" at some point, with all the limitations, generalizations and implementation details that entails. Because of that, the beautiful abstraction provided by Shotwell ends up being a detriment because people end up forced to think in "files" whether they like it or not. Dylan (And I have been slowly working on a solution to this; blog post coming soon, finally, I think)
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