Re: Filesystem helper, draft 1

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

> At home, you are the admin too, and some things are outside home dir
> always, like servers or tmp/. /proc/ is a good example, when someone
> asks what computer the user have, he will already see that /proc/ is
> System information, so he will visit it and found files like CPU or
> dirs like ide/, that when activated show the info nicely (aka parsed).

Exactly. They'll be useful when we have Nautilus Views for them.

> Descriptions. In the filemanager, they will appear near the name, but
> they do not have to stop there, a search function can provide the
> description near the path, or show a tooltip.

Then I pretty much agree with your proposal.