Hello Rainer, thank your for your comments. In general I agree with you.
On Saturday 17 September 2005 10:27, Rainer Klein wrote: > I'm thinking about a common working cache to keep all data items > (objects). From the user perspective, such a system could be something > like a 'Document folder' which is accessed via a kio-slave. The storrage > backend could be any > presistent system, such as: A file system, a Relational Database or even > an Object Database. > And the end user shouldn't worry about which. > Associated with each object, the following minimal set of meta data should > be stored: > - a unique identifier, automatically generated - like a hash key (md5)? > - its mime type > - its URL of origin [snip] Yes, something like that. I don't think we should think too much about these things right now, technical details can come later, I think we should talk about specific functionality, integration and usability first. Let's make some use cases, and try to solve them with our new concepts. > Another example could be a web page, currently presented in my browser. > This is a container object with all its different parts (objects) already > stored within my cache. - Now, I imagine I could do the following tasks: > > - displaying the HTML source > - creating a local archive version > - forwarding a copy to another viewer/editor either direct or using my > TODO list > - forwarding a copy via email > > All these tasks could be initiated without creating interim files or > reloading the objects from its point of origin. > Yes, it can be very inconvenient when Konqueror has to get a page several times. This is another area of usability than what I've discussed earlier, but important in its own right. Let's include this wish in our use cases mentioned above. We should, imo, also take a closer look at Basket. It actually does solve some of these problems, albeit not as "nice" as I'd like. And it lacks certain features, especially integration. > Is that something worth to follow up? > Sure, let's follow up with mighty discussion! Thanks, Niels _______________________________________________ Appeal mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/appeal
