I encourage those interested in Journal issues to attend my talk @ 1cc next Wednesday, or to view the video of that talk when it's posted. Most of the journal issues have straight-forward solutions.
Yesterday, I heard from the IT manager for the city of Key Largo, Florida; his 60-year old goverment workers have many of the same problems as our Mongolian users or 6-year olds. We can make things better. As Eben has mentioned, one part of this is prompting for names and descriptions at appropriate times. Think of Gmail: it doesn't let you send an email without a subject line without a bit a of effort. We can get better information from users, which will help them more easily find stuff later. Some objects, however (think of photos) really don't have good names: I've got a folder full of files named imgp12314.jpg and similar. Chronological search really is a decent way to find such things, and tags can help you re-find them later. I haven't put boot time on my personal 9.1.0 roadmap yet, but Mitch Bradley and others have done a good deal of work on the issue. I think we could make a sizable improvement for 9.1.0 if that's a priority (assuming some of the other technical enablers also make it into 9.1.0, like ubifs and partitions). --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel