On Friday, July 01, 2011 09:52:02 PM you wrote: > >________________________________ > >From: Richard Dale <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] > >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. I think that would be an example of what Steve Jobs would call 'lack of focus'. The failure to say 'no' when it makes sense.
I also think the fact that iOS have just dropped letting the users see the file system without coming up with a compelling alternative like KDE Nepomuk Activities or something similar with Tracker is one of their biggest competive weaknesses. -- Richard _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
