Re: Another view on file dialogs.

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

If there's an archive somewhere, I posted a long proposal for a tool to do this as an
external program last spring I believe (Feb->Apr 1999 ?) based on mime type
registration, etc.

Dylan Griffiths wrote:

>         Just in case I've not caused enough of stir, where's another way entirely
> that obsoletes (or at least, greatly reduces the need for) file dialogs.
> That is, the environment where you are always working with the DATA, not
> with the programs.
>         Example: excepting games and other programs you "use," have a common "New
> file" dialog which lets you pick the type and then loads the appropriate
> program for you (talk about ease of use!), or an "Open file" dialog which
> indexes your data with meta-info (added user notes, etc) to allow easier
> finding (rather than always resorting to the hierarchical directory tree).
> Way more docu-centric, and where Win95 seemed to be heading (before MS
> decided that we needed to be "web centric" for some unknown reason).
>         People don't think about the tools, just the job.  Why force them to think
> of the tools?  Why force them to LOAD hammer, then open
> /toolbox/nailbox/nail_file and get_a_nail, and then perform_hammering?  Why
> can't we have the interface equivalent of, "I'm going to be putting a
> picture on the wall, give me a hammer and a nail so I can work" ?
>
>         Oh, and on "web centric"ness of the latest Nautalis.. I have to say that
> "web centric" is just a special sub case of docu-centric.  Rather than being
> * data oriented, it's * web data oriented.  I just wish Eazel would be
> working on making Gnome docu-centric, instead of web-centric.  (Not meant as
> a flame, btw)
>
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