On 4/13/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't thought this out but i guess it wouldn't be possible to > put 100 projects in this shelf the same way 100 icons will not > "fit" in a dock or on the desktop. I'd like to think the shelf > holds a user's most frequently used projects and the rest are in > the user's home. It seems to me it might be best to have the root level of your home folder be a flat view of all projects (which could obviously be filtered, tagged, grouped, etc). The ones you want to work with that day would be dragged into the Shelf, making the Shelf more of a Project-switcher, in the vein of a virtual desktop switcher.
Yes.
I think a file manager of some sort is really essential because our > computer's are like book library. Without a file/object manager, > things will get very messy. Maybe not -- there won't really be such thing as a hierarchy, as Projects can only contain Documents and Annotations, not other Projects or Folders. Using a traditional file manager in that sense would be a nightmare, as the number of files to sift through would quickly overwhelm the user.
i didn't mean the traditional kind of file manager. Although backward compatibility could be useful somewhere somehow.
I'm not sure if a project is equivalent to a folder but are there > reasons why it should or shouldn't be? I'm of the mind that Projects completely replace the idea of Folders -- Folders are used for creating hierarchies, and we're avoiding all hierarchies by using Tags and Projects. Others may feel differently.
me too. Although in a previous mockup (http://brian.muhumuza.googlepages.com/object-manager.html) the object manager dynamically creates hierarchies when objects are grouped i.e. grouped by type, by tags or by metadata. Meaning that even if objects were in different projects, when grouped by... say type, an object's project is ignored and it is put in a group of its type. What would you comment about this. Also, bear in mind that all this discussion relates only the user's
home folder, which, for all practical purposes, is the only thing they will ever see. The rest of the system is considered off-limits (at least from an Etoile GUI standpoint -- it would still be possible to get to /bin, /etc, and other directories outside of the $HOME by using CLI or some other specialty navigation tool). J. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
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