On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am concerned that focusing on such systems is breaking simple use > cases and causing problems for users in the field. I believe that this > functionality is important, but do not agree that it should comprise the > base layer of data access on a real-world system. > > Search is extremely powerful, but technically complicated to implement, > and equivalently complex to learn how to use. Remember that almost all > of us involved in this discussion have been using search on the web for > at least the past decade, and while we now understand it as an intuitive > process I contend this is not the case for new users. (I can remember, > but not locate, at least one study which noted that uninitated users > used search engines in extremely strange ways, for instance, running all > their search terms together because it mirrored the typical format of > DNS names.) > > Fully qualified names (file names) are simple. They are misused to the > extent that users give things strange or confusing names. But, the > names are qualified and the users can encounter their work simply by > remembering most components of the name. The concept is > straightforward: given this key I will always find the data I need, and > only that data.
No one said that search would replace names. Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
