On 10/30/06, Niklas Nisbeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm.
>
> Am I the only one obsessing about organising all my data in the same
> place? (ie. the "Finder"/Workspace)..
>
> IMO the files should indeed be individual file system objects; the
> organisation (filtering, list order) could be done by use of
> attributes in a database (as we can't rely on a Great Filesystem(tm)
> like BeOS could) - but all in the graphical shell, not in iTunes/
> iPhoto-like beasts... Services would be provided to "Play these" or
> "Slideshow these" etc., but there'd be no Media Library Application
> to launch, just small applications to view and edit (and I'd prefer
> to keep those as seperate as possible too).
In my plan, it will be more like "attributes with files associated"
instead of "files with attributes associated".
We can have a universal viewer to browse the collection
because they can be access through the same library.
But people want to browse the collection differently by the file type.
For example, iTunes is mainly browsed by genre, artist and album;
iPhotos are browsed by date and event; Mail and RSS reader
are browsed by sources, etc.
We can still have separate applications to "play" these files
through services.
But for management, it may be easier to have different applications
for different file types.
It is just for convenient.
If we have a universal browser, people will still like to custom
it for different file types.
So in the end, it will have different modes,
like "list view", "icon view", "music view", "photo view", etc.
Then it is not very different from having different applications to
manage files.
Anyway, it is just some thoughts I have now,
and I haven't have any chance to work on it.
Yen-Ju
I smell that many apps will need a FileFilter library to filter these collections and return only those files that the app can handle i.e.
A collection of audio, video and images. When you "pipe" it to an audio player, it uses the lib to filter out the audio.
Wouldn't it be nice if a gimp-like tool supported collections. You "pipe" to it a collection of images and it shows an "icon view". so you do a selection and perform whatever fancy graphic function(s) on all selected images at once.
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Happy day
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Brian
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