On 2 May 2007, at 16:36, Luis Villa wrote: > On 5/2/07, Chris Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Looks like a challenge has been issued: > > .... > >> Entries will be judged by Joyent. The criteria for "best port" is a >> combination of "ah-hah!", "wow", "nice", "joyous", "utility", >> "functionality", "originality", "drag and drop", "user experience". > > The drag-and-drop bit would flip me out completely. The ability to > trivially associate (and presumably later open) a local file with an > action would be incredibly, incredibly useful. At that point, in > combination with a tickler, I could practically ditch my file manager > altogether :)
I'm not quite sure how dropping files would work. You could either store the file path on the local machine, but then that would break if you accessed it from another machine on the server. But I agree, it would be really cool. > Shame they don't seem to be mentioning a linux port; I assume/hope > someone will do that when the GPL the code. I hope so too - they also need to produce a VM for PPC Macs too, or a Universal build. cheers, bsag -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
