Hi!
Am 28.05.2006 um 03:27 schrieb Hubert Chan:
Just wondering how you think ExtendedWorkspaceKit design is wrong,
and how you think it should be designed. I started writing my own
file manager a while ago, before I came across Etoile, and I
thought it would be better to help out the Etoile file manager if I
could.
Speaking of file managers, I have and idea of which i would like to
know what you think of it.
Many applications that run on OSX* today (iTunes, Mail, iPhoto etc.)
are what I one may call 'Collection management' applications: On the
right you have a list of items (Mail/Song list) and an extra view
that "inspects" them (Mail body view, Player controls). On the left,
there's a - possibly hierarchical - view of folders where those items
are put into. Ideally, you can also have 'smart folders'.
Shouldn't all that be the task of the file system layer? If the file
system layer natively provided smart folders and meta-data for files,
every application capable of using files and exporting meta-data
would get all this functionality for free. (Of course this is only
the case when there's a file manager which supports all this.)
Is something like that planned for the Etoile file system access code?
-Günther
[*] I know we are not developing for OSX. :-> But the overall
strategy of GNUstep to attract OSX developers who want to develop
cross-platform applications is possibly going to lead to many similar
applications on GNUstep in the long term, too.
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