> > So, I'm asking here for ideas on how we could better integrate databases > > into the GNOME desktop. So far, some (crazy) ideas: > > * create a db-filesystem, like the WinFS thing on longhorn. That would > > be a gnome-vfs module that offers a category-based filesystem for > > gnome-vfs-based applications. Thus, users could use a database file > > (SQLite) or a big database (for saving files from many applications) > Good idea. The problem is that databases usually don't like to store > big binary files for performances reasons... Also How would it be > integrated with things like Beagle or Storage (I've never tried any, > though)? This would be very useful, there was a Samba VFS module that made a virtual filesystem from an ODBC datasource. Unfortunately it was never picked-up/maintained and now seems to be gone [ and I lost my local copy :( ] Something like this for GNOME-VFS I think would be very useful, particularly for places (like us) that already have a database oriented document management system. From rom Samba mail archive: " >I have created a VFS module which implements a fairly complete readonly > filesystem. It presents information from a database as a filesystem in > a modular and generic way to allow different databases to be used > (originally designed for organizing MP3s under directories such as > "Artists," "Song Keywords," etc... I have since applied it to a student > roster database very easily). The directory structure is stored in the > database itself and the module makes no assumptions about the database > structure beyond the table it requires to run. You can find it at: > http://www.css.tayloru.edu/~elorimer/databasefs/index.php "
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