On 01/07/11 13:44, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
On Friday 01 Jul 2011 11:36:58 Martyn Russell wrote:
On 01/07/11 10:45, Éric Seigne wrote:
Hello all,
Hello,
i'm working on tablet edition. I've not found a file manager or any use
of (for example) usb keys ... is there something planned about that ?
if not, i'm okay to develop it.
What do you plan to use the file manager for?
The obtuse answer here is "To access the file system"... a less obtuse
answer is "Because I want to" ;)
From a geek stand point, I completely understand. From a non-geek stand
point, I would ask, why does the user need to access the file system? A
lot of modern day smart phones work with files but never expose the file
system in a way that a conventional file manager does.
Ideally, you shouldn't need a file manager at all on the platform,
applications should manage the files you use properly for you.
This is all well and good for the majority of people... right until you run
into the programs which don't play by the rules ;) And we all know how many
app devs are out there who don't like the rules (for whatever misguided reason
there might be for it, they exist, and we have to deal with them).
That's still not a reason to need a file manager. :)
One reason is really just to cater for 3rd party apps with file types
unsupported as standard by the system (for example).
A lot of the concepts of a file manager don't make sense to me on a
device like a tablet. Users seldom care *where* their files are, rather
what they're called and that they can find them. Again that's the realm
of the applications IMO.
Understand, I am playing devil's advocate a little here ;)
--
Regards,
Martyn
Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.
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