On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 22:31 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2007/5/20, Laurent GUERBY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Today I installed canola. Removed it after 10 minutes. > > > > Why are developpers of media application using the "scan+database" based > > approach instead of just letting user browse folders to open > > the media they want? > > Because people are lazy and want the machine do the organizing for > them. That's why we have metadata in the files, so that the user can > safely keep the files in gigantic blobs and still find the correct one > when they want to, without scanning the thousands of crappily named > files over.
Note that I don't say the indexing isn't useful "If you want indexing for the user just add a "add media directory to index" option and let user open "index" files." I'm saying proposing *only* indexing (and total from / indexing...) is completely wrong. Indexing *is* of course useful (especially when meta data is present), I fully agree with you on that. But so is being to use the software on a mobility device without waiting two hours :). Laurent _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
