Hi! Am 14.04.2007 um 04:12 schrieb Yen-Ju Chen: > 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.
There's a possible solution to the desktop cluttering problem: Don't make the desktop a directory. The open source file manager ROX stores the desktop's contents in a configuration file. Everything on the desktop is a link to a file. When opening or dragging the objects on the desktop, the original file location is used. This way, the user can't save things to the desktop and is forced to find a better place. Here's the URL to that file manager. http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/static.html If I remember correctly, this way of storing the desktop contents was copied from RISC OS, but I'm not sure about that. I strongly believe that forcing people to organise their files in a proper way is a huge step into the right direction. It would of course be better if the computer did that for us, but there are way too many cases where a machine can't do that automatically. (This is not necessarily just an AI problem - we also lack the resources to write adapters for every file type.) I don't agree with the "Inbox" idea. Of course having an "Inbox" directory is better than just loading it all on the desktop, but the contents of the Inbox directory will nevertheless have to be sorted by the user at one point or another. It doesn't free you from the work of organising your files. What makes it a bad solution is that it encourages you to postpone all the file ordering. -Günther _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
