ext Florent Viard <[email protected]> writes:

> Stop considering the regular user as a stupid guy/girl that needs to
> have everything reduced to only one button. Most of the users never
> had problem to understand and use file managers as soon as they are
> used to. (Otherwise, windows wouldn't have been used by so much users
> until today)

It's not that filesystems are too difficult and must be hidden, the
thing is that they are a god damn awful way to organize your data.  They
are not difficult, they are primitive, and we should provide something
better.

Given the user _only_ a filemanager is a failure, but I would agree that
the things we try to give the user instead are still a bit raw, and not
ready yet to make filemanagers redundant for everyone.

IMO, people don't care so much about folder hierarchy when they have
good search and tagging.  But they do care about physical location of
data, e.g., whether the music file is on the memory card, in the
internal phone storage, or on the home server.

I have the feeling that we can replace the 'hierachical folder
navigation' part of filemanagers quite well, but the 'copy stuff from
the home server to my phone' part isn't covered well enough yet.
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