I think we need to remember that the desktop interface as we developed it a
PARC in the 70's was based on files and folders because our storage was so
limited that finding stuff later wasn't a problem. Today I almost always find
things by searching for them, either on my computer, or on the Web
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:54:40AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Please also see this article (
> http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2011/06/08/new-pony/) which Tomeu Vizoso (one
> of the early Sugar developers) just shared on Google+, well worth a
> read!
The article offers no solution that avo
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dave Bauer wrote:
>
> I think search is the answer. There's no reason why a hierarchal
> categorization can't be one of the wants to access information, but it
> certainly isn't the only way. I used recent documents feature very
> often, I usually search for downlo
On 07/15/2011 05:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Please also see this article
> (http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2011/06/08/new-pony/) which Tomeu Vizoso
> (one of the early Sugar developers) just shared on Google+, well worth a read!
I see this movement, along with Gnome-3's work on tablet com
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Dave Bauer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, John Watlington wrote:
> >
> >> When OS X starts up with a search box open
> >> instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :)
> >
> > What a nightmare !I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amou
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:01 AM, John Watlington wrote:
>
>> When OS X starts up with a search box open
>> instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :)
>
> What a nightmare ! I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amounts
> of information, correctly specifying the search or filterin
> When OS X starts up with a search box open
> instead of a blank desktop we'll know we are there :)
What a nightmare !I'm sorry, but once you move past trivial amounts
of information, correctly specifying the search or filtering through
the results of a loosely specified search takes forever
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
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:/
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