On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 18:00, David Adam Bordoley wrote: > The question should not be whether or not it is technically feasable but > whether it is even desirable from a usability standpoint. Hierarchical > folders are hard to use and many of us on the ui team have long hoped for a > way to escape the hierarchical file system and replace it with something > more database like. But "database like" must come with extended query capabilities, otherwise it's a step back into the CP/M 1.0 or MS-DOS 1.0 filesystem with no hierarchy either (only half kidding here).. I wish more people had experienced the BeOS filesystem. It's entirely possible to combine a hierarchic access mode with attribute-based management and advanced query capabilities, and THAT's truly what makes a system both powerful and easy to use. It shouldn't matter whether files/bookmarks are stored in a hierarchy or not if you can also make arbitrary queries into the structure and get back a flat view. Evolution's virtual folders are a pale shadow of what the power of the system can be, for those who are familiar with that implementation.. -- Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@iki.fi>
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