Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:

> > Perhaps the following features would define a spatial
> > app:
> >
> > 1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't disturb
> > the app it's open in
> why not have a central repo for document specific data, rather than each
> application as nautilus or scribes/scratchpad using a app specific
> database.
>
> ~/.spatial/<doc-hash>

Actually, the desktop search engines around are planning on providing 
such things (random metadata for files). Tracker does this by design, 
and I think the beagle team is planning on providing a similar feature.

> > 2. renaming the file in the file manager causes the
> > app to update its title bar accordingly
> sounds perfect. 

Main issue is: how to do it? I'm not aware of any way of doing such 
things currently. AFAIK gnome-vfs monitoring can tell you a file has 
been deleted, but can't tell you if the deletion is a move, and were it 
moved. (It might want a bugzilla enhancement request, but I don't know 
if it's solvable)