On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just saw this article over on O'Reilly Radar and a lot of what the >> author says also applies to the Journal: "Why files need to die: Files are >> an anachronism in the digital age. It's time for something better." ( >> http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/why-files-need-to-die.html). >> >> So while it's still early days I definitely feel that the Journal is >> generally moving into the right direction, especially with all the new >> features and whatnot discussed during the eduJAM! summit:-) >> > > I am not purely convinced on eliminating the files paradigm, maybe the > folders would be a different conversation. But files are well... pretty > obiquos. Since you seem very interesting in having this paradigm of a > journal. I wonder if you got inspired out of Zeitgeist project in gnome (I > think they rename it now to something more normal like gnome-journal or > something). > Not sure that there's necessarily a direct connection between Sugar's Journal and Gnome's Zeitgeist but if there were then I'd probably argue that it went from Sugar to Gnome rather than the other way 'round;-) > I would like to hear your validation of the journal and why is it a good > idea, and how deep will this change goes beyond the UI and apps to a > commandline environment. > See the aforementioned article, it really contains most of the reasons why I personally think that something like the Journal is a good idea. It seems to be that a stream-like interface combined with a database based backend is a good combination for today's computing context. On an even a broader scale back in Uruguay in early May Bert Freudenberg pointed out that mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS and now increasingly even desktop operating systems (e.g. OS X Lion) are moving into a direction where you're not really interacting with files anymore. Cheers, Christoph > Cheers, > >> Christoph >> >> -- >> Christoph Derndorfer >> co-editor, olpcnews >> url: www.olpcnews.com >> e-mail: [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> > > > -- > *Alexandro Colorado* > *OpenOffice.org* Español > http://es.openoffice.org > > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: [email protected]
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