> On 5/28/06, Günther Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Many applications that run on OSX* today (iTunes, Mail, iPhoto etc.) >> are what I one may call 'Collection management' applications: ... >> >> Shouldn't all that be the task of the file system layer? ...
Yes, that's what I hope will happen. It seems strange to me to have to open up a bunch of different apps to do the same thing, but on different types of data. I think that we should put as much as possible (and as much as it makes sense) into the file manager, so that I can use my file manager to manage *all* my files -- not "all my files (except for pictures, which I use gthumb for, or music, which I use rhythmbox for, or email, which I use GNUMail for, etc....)". ... On 2006-05-28 07:33:44 -0400 Sašo Kiselkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NEXTSTEP tried to go a different way - most of the things were > available from the file viewer (files, documents, even hierarchical > address lists) and most of it was done using drag'n'drop. It's a shame > Apple reversed this direction and went for a more traditional approach > of each app managing it's own data store. I was raised on OS/2, which had an amazing file manager (the Workplace Shell). One neat thing that I found was a program that an IBMer had written that extended the WPS so that it implemented a calendar. And I think there was a bunch of other stuff like that, but I don't really remember. It's unfortunate that OS/2 never gained much popularity, and a lot of the ideas died off. And I heard that in BeOS, the file manager was the mail reader. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
