>________________________________
>From: Richard Dale <richard.d...@telefonica.net>
>To: meego-dev@meego.com
>Sent: Friday, July 1, 2011 3:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] File manager for Tablet Edition
>
>On Friday, July 01, 2011 04:33:45 PM Éric Seigne wrote:
>> Le 01/07/2011 16:11, Martyn Russell a écrit :
>> > When you connect a USB key you usually want to either copy data locally
>> > or use data from USB key. In the former, I personally would prefer the
>> > device to sync my data for me and in the later, use the data on the
>> > USB key from applications.
>> >
>> >> and an other question: imagine people have a tablet and want make a
>> >> backup ... (for example on an usb key) ... what is the solution ?
>> >
>> > You run your "backup" application, which requires a usb key or some
>> > removable storage device. Logically, I wouldn't think of a file
>> > manager as the place to start a backup, I would expect that in my list
>> > of applications somewhere.
>>
>> Okay,
>>
>> so meego don't need a file manager for tablet, thanks a lot, i don't
>> waste my time.
>Certainly forcing normal users to interact with a heirarchical file system
>like
>Linux via file managers has been a proven failure, although 'power users' like
>the people on this list have no trouble using file managers. But I don't think
>we should be designing Meego for people like ourselves.
>
>Plasma Active seems to have got the right idea to me. They are using the
>Nepomuk store to have a common way for applications to store their data in a
>non application specific way. Then they are using a metaphor of 'activities'
>such as 'my photo stuff' or 'my social network stuff' to interact with the
>environment as opposed to my '/home/myuser/Documents/something.mp3' which is
>pretty low level. The average user doesn't want to see those paths like
>'/home/myuser/Document', but they do want the activity of 'my music things' to
>just find their mp3's wherever they are, and only show them in a context in
>which they make sense.
>
>Recently the Meego project seems to have been trying to de-emphasize Tracker,
>which makes it harder for Tracker to be the glue between apps, like KDE
>Nepomuk is in Plasma Active, as a basis for enabling activity functionality.
>To me this seems a mistake. I recently watched a Steve Jobs video where he
>said the meaning of 'focus' was being able to say 'no', and not saying 'yes'
>all the time. In my opinion the Meego project needs to be able to focus and
>know when it makes sense to say no. That should mean focusing on what the user
>experience should be ('Activites'), and knowing when to say no to
>functionaltiy which is part of that focus, like 'File Managers' and
>'/home/myuser/Documents/something.mp3' being in the user's face.
>
I don't think accommodating average/new users vs power users needs to be
mutually exclusive or burdensome. Provide a contextual approach by default,
with a powerful traditional file manager under the hood.
Randy
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