On 10/30/06, Niklas Nisbeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hm.
Am I the only one obsessing about organising all my data in the same
place? (ie. the "Finder"/Workspace)..
IMO the files should indeed be individual file system objects; the
organisation (filtering, list order) could be done by use of
attributes in a database (as we can't rely on a Great Filesystem(tm)
like BeOS could) - but all in the graphical shell, not in iTunes/
iPhoto-like beasts... Services would be provided to "Play these" or
"Slideshow these" etc., but there'd be no Media Library Application
to launch, just small applications to view and edit (and I'd prefer
to keep those as seperate as possible too).
In my plan, it will be more like "attributes with files associated"
instead of "files with attributes associated".
We can have a universal viewer to browse the collection
because they can be access through the same library.
But people want to browse the collection differently by the file type.
For example, iTunes is mainly browsed by genre, artist and album;
iPhotos are browsed by date and event; Mail and RSS reader
are browsed by sources, etc.
We can still have separate applications to "play" these files
through services.
But for management, it may be easier to have different applications
for different file types.
It is just for convenient.
If we have a universal browser, people will still like to custom
it for different file types.
So in the end, it will have different modes,
like "list view", "icon view", "music view", "photo view", etc.
Then it is not very different from having different applications to
manage files.
Anyway, it is just some thoughts I have now,
and I haven't have any chance to work on it.
Yen-Ju
-N
On Oct 30, 2006, at 3:37 PM, brian muhumuza wrote:
> So, would a collection of say, photos, have a representation as a
> filesystem object?
>
> I think if the collection could be represented as a file system
> object, you could open the whole collection with a single/doube
> click or choose a service to open it with.
>
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