On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 Kieren MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, all you BSD hackers! > > A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long overdue, > and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and growing > "child" -- is the perfect place to start the revolution... ;-) > > If anyone has seen Scopeware (<http://www.scopeware.com>), you'll know > the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where > *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced > (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one or more > "filters" or "streams". Oddly enough, Evolution supports this concept for email. In addition to the usual support for mail folders and such, it has a virtual folder concept that allows you to group and view emails by sort/search criteria such as header contents. It's quite powerful; I use it for reviewing FreeBSD CVS commit messages and such quickly. Do you envision this as an actual new filesystem, or strictly as a user interface 'view' onto the filesystem? A filesystem with extensible attributes might be a good companion to such a system, where you can tag a file with one or more attributes, then sort and view the files by attribute. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
