Re: File dialogs: Miscellaneous

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

That's part of the 'intelligence' I'd like to have in my computer, yes.
Dynamically created directories, etc. except that I'd use filters on well
described files & metadata, rather than database queries.  That is, I agree
with the ReiserFS people that you shouldn't need much more than filesystem
namespace to organise your files and to use that as your database.

----- Original Message -----
From: <thristian@atdot.org>


> On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 05:48:47PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be wonderful if your filesystem allowed you to easily add
> > arbitrary metadata to a file like 'photographer, location, date shot,
slide
> > #, film case id' to your photos and then auto-link them to folders by
those
> > names?
> >
> > photos/* (thousands of pictures numbered)
> >
> > photos/By_Photographer/Michael/* (most of them, soft-links to the photos
> > directory)
> > photos/By_Location/France/* (a bunch of files, soft-links to the photos
> > directory)
> >
> > ... etc.  Using filesystems like ReiserFS, this becomes even more
efficient
> > and great for locating files later.  If you could do this _in-place_,
> > creating pseudo-meta-data (linking to intelligently named directories),
your
> > file system would grow on you more.
>
> Here's a crazy thought: Gnome is developing gnome-vfs, an abstraction
> of ways to access strange and bizzare filesystems and
> quasi-filesystems in a generic manner, much like the kernel is
> supposed to do, but portable between kernels. Gnome is also developing
> Evolution, a mailer where you can have mail-folders which are just the
> results of database queries.
>
> Could we add a vFolder filesystem to gnome-vfs? So we can use
> gnome-find to say "Get me all files modified in the past three days",
> and then save the query as a "vFolder" somewhere..
>
> Incidentally, this kind of feature is going to be popular. Mozilla has
> a similar feature, where you can save the result of bookmark-wide
> search as a folder in your bookmarks.
>
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