Re: Switch back and forth between two window using Alt-Tab

2006-04-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 09:48:28PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In kde/gnome..., using Alt-tab could switch back and forth between two window(Alt-tab, Alt-tab...). I've got an old version of ION and I can do meta-kk to switch to the last window that had focus. I guess that this feature is

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-26 Thread Sam Mason
[[ sorry if you recieve this message twice, I sent it last time from an address that isn't registered with the mailing list. ]] On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:19:19PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: [2]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2006/03/01/T17_55_20/ I've thought a similar idea would be

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:30:32AM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-26, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: File lookups would have to stop while tags were being modified though. But yes, it's much less of an issue for file systems than for databases. Actually, with suitable

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:07:24PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-27, Tuomo Valkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know about that.. The thing is, I like writing algorithms and data structures more than learning others' APIs, and the help provided by a DB isn't _that_ big...

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:44:52PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-27, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some very nice high-level libraries available[1] for Haskell that abstract away even writing the SQL. Of these I've only played with HaskellDB and was reasonably

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:39:27PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-27, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that was because as the filesystem grew there would be many more files relative to tags. It depends on the use I guess. If, say, you would be saving email

Re: Feature freeze imminent

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:53:50PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-27, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In more human terms I would have a table of files, the purpose of which is to give you the fileid (sort of like the inode number), a table of tags that define what tags

Re: SetFS

2007-02-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:01:40PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-02-27, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can think up any cases where you're not going to have a similar number of tags to files then I'd be interested to know, I'm failing. Well, I suppose all the cases I can

Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:53:51PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: One related thing that I've thought about (a little but not enough) is typed tags or meta-tags. So e.g. the tag 'ion' could have the meta-tag 'project'. The path component #project would then filter out everything that doesn't

Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-02 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:23:03PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-03-01, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments? I didn't bother to read all the technical explanation in detail, I thought it would be nice to have something concrete to discuss, but it was probably a bit early

Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-02 Thread Sam Mason
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:06:44PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: Come to think of it, perhaps people are going the wrong way about database file systems: implementing them on top of a conventional FS, giving useless names to the files under the database file system's control. Perhaps it would

Re: Hierarchical tag structure in SetFS

2007-03-02 Thread Sam Mason
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:51:51PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2007-03-02, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how do you ensure that every program can interact with every file? Mounting the naming system somewhere in the global namespace? Or maybe URL-style stuff, if we didn't have

Re: Patch collection

2009-05-26 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:01:37PM +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote: Some comments though: I don't know Hg to well myself, but at least Git does not suffer from these problems: Try using darcs for a few days it seems to just do the right thing so much more than any other VCS I've ever