I hate to sound like an antediluvian Atlantean but we already had this functionality in a desktop operating system several years ago. My BeOs desktop had arbitrary metadata integrated into the file system (admittedly I never really took advantage of it's power) but Be never reached the mainstream.
For more details look at: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=421&page=13 http://www.osnews.com/img/421/trackerbase.gif and you can download a book written by the guy who designed the Be File System from his site here: http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/index.html I think this is another case of William Gibson's heuristic: the future's already here, it's just not evenly distributed. On 5/18/05, Gen Kanai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anselm, > > Agreed. > > Would you say that Apple's Spotlight in OS X and Google Desktop are > the first steps towards this kind of functionality in the future? > > On May 18, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Anselm Hook wrote: > > > > desktop operating system... I'm tired of clunky web interfaces > > that only > > manage one kind of thing. That it took del to break ground here is > > wonderful but... when is this stuff going to get into our desktops > > - and > > start to deal with the other qualifiers we use every day? I'd like > > to be > > able to set contraints like 'all things tagged blue, of this mime > > type, in > > this date range and authored while I was in france' etc. I'd like > > this to > > be the primary way I order _all_ my stuff... not just a novelty for my > > bookmarks. It is so matter of fact and so simple that it is > > scarely worth > > mentioning... yet operating systems that do this are still not out > > yet. > > > > - a > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
