On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:59 -0600, Eric Wasylishen wrote: > Hey Jesse, I think this is a great idea. > > I have one to add: > > 10. From the user's perspective, what form will photo and music > management take? What sort of interaction would a user perform to > reach his music library?
Speaking from the peanut gallery here, this question could be generalized: many documents on a user's desktop are not edited, but simply downloaded and read. What does the workflow look like when you aren't "working" on something per se? Many professional tools seem to follow the pattern laid out by Jesse in his email. For example, Pro/Engineer asks you what kind of generic project you would like to start working on, then the contents of menus and palettes afterward depend on the project type. To get to a specific format you can exchange with non-Pro/E software, you use an export service through one of the menus. (Saving and accessing projects is done using the operating system's filesystem.) However, multimedia seems to follow a completely different model: one has "collections" which are managed, displayed or transmitted. How to reconcile these two flows? _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
