Re: Faster way to delete files and Select files, in groups.

[jjenning stetson edu (jared l. jennings)]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:54:02AM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> jjenning stetson edu (2001-06-29 at 1728.17 -0400):
> > well shoot, why not let the user make such searches first-class
> > sorts of objects, and call them vfolders? put a little emblem on
> > them to notify the user that they're virtual. they would really be a
> > special file containing the search criteria and starting point of
> > the search, and maybe cached previous search results
> 
> While I am a bit againts the term folder and vfolder (due abuse of it
> that makes people believe they are folders and that they have the same
> limits than real folders), yes, more or less that is the idea.

We could have a little butterfly-net icon and call them nets! Noo, scratch that. just a bit ambiguous....

actually these 'vfolders' (insert better name here) might have some limitations of physical folders: how would we implement arbitrary-depth 'vfolders'? That could get complex..

> You could also export them as text lists (nice for CDR storage,
> feeding into XMMS, pass to scripts, mail to friends or any weird idea
> you can have), use them in any typical task you want (move, copy,
> rename, open...), also refine searchs or select only a small group and
> then do ops with it (you search all your images in a dir tree, then
> you only open the ones that have buildings in them, whatever name they
> have, or open the three you like more).

that's something that would like to be a hierarchical vfolder (vtree?)...
Images/Buildings
though you would need to put the building images in the vtree yourself...
i think some Mac UI engineer suggested complete doing away with real directories, trees, what have you and entirely moving to v-trees.. of course this requires very good searching ability


i think i accidentally crossed this topic over from gui-list to usability :P

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