In short it is a virtual file system. However it takes the concept further in several respects (for a fuller answer read the "about" page):
* it mounts lots more than an ordinary VFS - including XML documents (so the tree of the document can be browsed), databases, X (so that window position and size for example can be read and modified as if they were data in the filesystem), web browser bookmarks... * it extracts useful metadata from all of these things and treats it in a consistent way, it also allows the user to add meta-data. * an interesting feature it has is "agents" who will intelligently tag items (files etc) giving a certain confidence that they are such a thing, the user can then accept or reject these tags. I can imagine this interacting very usefully with the whole "activities" thing, where intelligent suggestions as to what should be a part of your activity could make the whole experience much more useful. * ... much more (I mentioned before it works on maemo, can talk to Nepomuk, has a REST interface) .. all of which leads to the "uniform method of access" I mentioned where all sorts of document data, document structure and metadata becomes available in a a uniform way. As to the previous question about MS Windows support, I am having a look at what would be required to compile on that platform. Regards, C On 13 May 2012 10:53, David Faure <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2012 21:33:35 Casper Clemence wrote: > > Libferris is an awesome piece of technology. It provides not just the > > traditional features of a VFS but a uniform method of access for > > applications and users to a large and expanding range of things > > What does it do exactly, and how? > > -- > David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr > Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5 > >
