Sorry, this was supposed to go to the list, not just Christian. On 03/23/2015 04:39 AM, Christian Reiner wrote: > Instead I suggested strict, hierarchical tag structures to be used. I was > inspired by the power of that approach when really diving into the > organization of my picture collection using the Digikam application.
I use Digikam as well, because it does what I mentioned before - layers on top of the existing filesystem hierarchy. So, I can find things in the CLI via find and cd, or via tags, etc., from Digikam. I think a variation on this would be a good feature add. > So what I suggest is not that you should be taken your hierarchies away, > certainly not! What I suggest is that we get rid of the need to press > everything into a single, static file hierarchy. Which is only a limitation > forced upon us by the way current file systems are implemented. Which is > something that was created back in the early 50th. Things progressed since, > you know? I could be on board with this. > Let's take an analogy: todays digital technology is still founded on the > principles of the von Neumann architecture. That is how nearly all of todays > computers work. But still we humans invented lots of different languages to > interact with them. Aside: And all but a few of them suck. :-) Just because there are a lot of programming languages doesn't mean there are a lot of useful programming languages. > What I sketched would offer such means: the approach certainly would allow > everyone to use the system just like a classical file hierarchy. But it would > not limit to that, neither in location, not in association, nor in > concurrency. It allows us to "go multi"! If you implement this as a plugin to a production version (no weird beta stuff), I would be happy to enable it in my instance, test it and offer feedback. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller PGP Key: http://www.mattcaron.net/pgp_key.txt ~~ Matt Caron ~~ _______________________________________________ User mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
