On 4/13/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was referring to previous several discussion, not a particular one. > > One thing which I concern is that we always have some "objects" > > on hand which we haven't organize or tag, > > for example, a video received from a friend or a mail attachment > > from the boss. > > They scatter on the desktop for a while until we decide where to > > put it. > > This kind objects usually are recognized by our visual at a > > particular place > > of the desktop. If they are organized automatically, the chance > > to find > > it is small. > > That is why I propose an "Archive" action. > > It is like an automatic organization of objects > > instead of creating folder in regular file manager. > > Once it is "archived", you can use object manager to deal with it. > > > > "Unarchived" object can be managed or gathered in a particular > > place. > > That is something we can discuss. But a good point is that visual is > > important for such "unarchived" objects. > > Can we solve that with a general "Inbox"? It seems like this would > only be relevant for items not made by the user (as any documents > made by the user would be created within the context of the Project, > and thus would have all that Project's metadata associated with it). > Also, could we auto-tag those items with metadata like: > > - who sent it > - the day it was received > - the object/file name (if it has one) > - any subject or body copy around the attachment > > Would that solve the situation, so that all items can have a tag, and > thus exist in the object space? Additionally, if we use the idea of > an Inbox, it could just be a view on the object manager with the > filter criteria "Received today" and "Created by another person".
Inbox is a good idea. To be clear, is every object belong to one or more projects. Or they are just in the backend storage and can be added into projects later. In both cases, is Inbox a project ? And I can foresee users to create project for some temporary usage. Therefore, projects are like folders, except they are only one-level depth under home directory. Yen-Ju > > > J. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
