Re: Finding and Reminding, tech issues, 3.0 and beyond

[Marco Bonomo <marco bonomo gmail com>]

Il giorno ven, 09/04/2010 alle 18.09 -0400, Owen Taylor ha scritto:
> I've attempted below to extract out some of the technical bits from
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Whiteboards/FindingAndReminding
> and see how they line up with our current technology. This is just
> notes, not yet a concrete plan.
> 
> - Owen
> 
> File management ideas and technology
> ====================================
> 
> "Things can safely fall off the desktop"
>  
>  [..]
>   
>    [ ] Pin to Desktop
>    
>   (or whatever the designers come up with), and that would create
>   a symlink to the desktop.
>   
>   The other approach is when expiring or archiving to move files
>   from ~/Desktop to an archival location like ~/Documents.
>   
> "Be able to treat non-local information the same as Places"
> 
>   [..]
>     
> "User defined tags"
> 
>   
> 
> Conclusions?
> ============
> 
> Not much yet - I think it will definitely be hard to implement
> our ideas without something that looks a lot like Tracker, and 
> since we have Tracker something that looks a lot like Tracker 
> is most likely Tracker :-) Zeitgeist seems less centrally crucial, 
> but there is a role for event logging here. 
> 
> Further UI design is definitely needed to figure out what we
> can do short-term for Nautilus/GtkFileChooser, etc.
> 

I didn't had the time to read everything so please excuse me if I'm
going OT . 

I've been pointed to this ML by Hylke Bons after showing him my work,
without any knowledge of this discussion i made this mockup last week
and i think some ideas are the same discussed here, only with a
different layout.

http://radel.deviantart.com/art/gnome-shell-sidebar-mockup-161580360

Hope it can be useful.

Regards, Marco.