Re: [Usability] About virtual folders

[Eric Larson <elarson novell com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:37 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I haven't read any discussion, or concrete plan, about virtual folders
> > a-la Vista. Or labels a-la gmail. Do you like the feature?
> > 
> 
> Yes I am working on this :
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker
> 
> which if/when integrated in Nautilus or Gnome-VFS will give you VFolder 
> ability as well as metadata/indexing/thumbnailing on the fly. Tracker is 
> intended to be a replacement for the defunct Medusa (which was supposed 
> to give Nautilus vfolder capability).
> 

It might be worthwhile to consider using beagle. I have seen some really
great stuff using libbeagle that would make me think this would be very
useful. The other aspect that this considers is creating a folder based
on a search (like in evolution). Just a thought. 

Eric Larson