Re(2): Database storage approach

[Alexander Peuchert <peuc peuchert de>]

Hi everybody,

oops, it seam that I started a very radikal discussion here.

After reading through the mails I see it this way:

storing everything in a database would be very complicated. There would
also be a risk of loosing everything, if the database isn't backed up.
Also non-gnomish apps couldn't access the files.

Next thing power user still want to have access to the files for
SEDing/AWKing/... them.

But for me it's very important to make GNOME usable for people not
familiar with computers.( This would bring GNOME way ahead of M$ W?????S!)
I hope I don't need to explain here how often I have to provide some
knowledge on copying floppies or finding files. And that's because the
storage approach of W?????S isn't easy to understand for
computer-outsiders!!!


So, here is another try:

still store things the normal way, but put a database atop of it. Also
allow to use the fileselector in two different ways. First normal
filesystem view, second virtual database view!
The database indexes all stored files and keeps track of changes from not
gnomish apps.

How about that ?


Alexander Peuchert
mailto:alexander@peuchert.de
http://www.peuchert.de ( not very interesting yet ;-) )