Re: [Usability]URI's

[Mike Hearn <mike theoretic com>]

What's really needed is for a universal VFS system. If anything, rather
than rooting stuff at the desktop, I'd root it at $HOME, so the user
never needs browse outside of their home dir. That also doesn't break
the command line view of things as much.

Of course that comes back to, should the desktop also be home? I'm not
sure, I think maybe, but stuff like evolution and GNUStep would have to
stop dropping folders in it with a . prefix.

Such a cross-desktop VFS system is needed pretty badly anyway. For Linux
you could use LUFS to mount a "System" dir into home, which could
contain a "CD Burner" directory etc. It'd have the advantage of showing
up for non-gnome apps too, even on the command line.

The con is of course that such a thing is presently Linux only. Perhaps
a VFS plugin abstraction that on Linux can be hooked directly into the
kernel via LUFS, and on other systems it's simply available to less of
the system?

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:20, Seth Nickell wrote:
> We desperately need a user solution to accompany the technical
> "solution" that URIs are trying to address. A lot of possibilities
> present themselves to my mind, from a sort of "mounting" system (this is
> roughly what OS/X uses for network filesystems of all sorts, and it
> automatically shows hardware devices) to some sort of "resource
> browser". It would be really nice if a lot of them could be merged into
> the standard user view of the filesystem cleanly with NO HOLES, for
> example having ~/Network or DESKTOP/Network or something.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:03, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > In the nautilus-cd-burner module, I encounter this string:
> > 
> > #: nautilus-cd-burner.c:476
> > msgid ""
> > "You need to copy the files you want to write to CD to the burn:///
> > location."
> > 
> > Do people agree with me that users should be exposed to URI's as little as
> > possible? Is this message even comprehensible at all to people who don't
> > know the location bar well?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Reinout van Schouwen			Artificial Intelligence student
> > email: reinout cs vu nl			mobile phone: +31-6-44360778
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