Re: Gnome 2.6: What were you thinking?

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:52:33PM -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> I think we should just forget the whole browser thing and do something
> better to locate files.  Nautilus really should be about file management
> not 'finding files'.
> 
> This is where working on medusa or some other architecture that uses
> metadata to find things.  It's not worth spending time on stuff like
> browser.  Honestly speaking wouldn't you prefer somethings more efficient
> than clicking around on an application trying to find something?
> 
> We keep spatial and we find a better way to locate files.  Lets not be
> stuck with the way people have done it in the past.  Because I'll tell
> you now thats what Microsoft and others are doing.  Those guys at 
> the research labs aren't out there tryign to tweak how to do browsers
> better.

Is gnome-storage still moving at all?
http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/ doesn't seem to have changed much
lately, and seth's blog is just a domain parking page right now.

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