Re: [Usability] spatial desktop

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:34 +0200, Steve Frécinaux
> wrote:
> > Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > 
> > >> Perhaps the following features would define a
> spatial
> > >> app:
> > >>
> > >> 1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't
> disturb
> > >> the app it's open in
> > > why not have a central repo for document
> specific data, rather than each
> > > application as nautilus or scribes/scratchpad
> using a app specific
> > > database.
> > > 
> > > ~/.spatial/<doc-hash>
> > 
> > Actually, the desktop search engines around are
> planning on providing 
> > such things (random metadata for files). Tracker
> does this by design, 
> > and I think the beagle team is planning on
> providing a similar feature.
> i tend to disable system wide search, as i rarely
> use them.

I'm not sure I expressed it the right way. 
I didn't mean 'the app that opens it' but:

1. moving the file in the file manager doesn't disturb
the app it's *currently* open in



		
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