RE: [Nautilus-list] [OT] Ok here's an idea

["Younger, Kristofer" <KYounger breakthrough-us com>]

These bundles & frameworks - they are pretty close to what was done on
NeXTSTEP. (So, I'm not surprised to see them coming on Mac) There was an
application wrapper that ended in .app, and the file viewer knew that such a
thing was an application bundle. You could open the app directory, see all
the resources (images, and UI bundles called .nib files) and when you
localized an app, all you needed was the .nibs and the tool (interface
builder). Basically, all this was to do Mac-like resources "forks" on a UNIX
file system. (And hey, Bud Tribble's here now, so he knows all this stuff
too)

I, for one, would love to see more systems that: 1) never require the user
to name a file or work with them in any day-to-day way  AND 2) never require
the user to "save" (and never loses user work) (and don't give me the
"revert-to-save" is so handy for people, it's not -- esp. if the fs had
journaling; they would just UNDO). Palm has been pointed to as a good
example, and I think Quicken is pretty good for #2.

cheers,
Kristofer




-----Original Message-----
From: Dan B. Mann [mailto:dmann wkkf org]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 9:32 AM
To: 'nautilus-list lists eazel com'
Subject: RE: [Nautilus-list] [OT] Ok here's an idea


Has anyone considered what Apple is doing with bundles and frameworks?

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-2.html

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:catpro manx dreamhaven net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 8:22 AM
To: Jeff
Cc: nautilus-list lists eazel com
Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] [OT] Ok here's an idea


That's a cool idea, but at this point, it's probably to late in the game
for linux to get such a thing, unless one wants to just use the linux
kernal and redo all the user applications.  However, to do so it outside
the scope of the GNOME project (the GNOME team has a lot of traditional
UNIX people who like files and files system as the currently exist), which
means that the GNOME project still needs a way to allow normal people to
manage files.

--
Joshua Boyd
http://catpro.dragonfire.net/joshua

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Jeff wrote:

> Maybe this ain't the place for this. The other day I was talking to a
> friend of mine and they said something that I thought was interesting.
> Wouldn't it be good if you never had to be concerned with files. I mean
> just think how cool it would be for a user, if they never had to deal
> with the file system. Why do you need to worry where things are stored,
> wouldn't it be good if your computer just did it. I know this is just
> something that will probably never happen, but instead of thinking about
> how to manage/present the file system why not think about how to
> hide/get rid of it for the user and have the computer just doit.
> 
> Anyway keep up the good work
> 
> Jeff
> 
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