Re: [Usability] Re: New way of accessing software (WAS: Re: Big Panel menus (32x32))

[Koen Hufkens <koen hufkens pandora be>]

At 23:31 14/06/2003 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> I don't see no mental mess anywhere. If you have 3GB of music for
> example, the folder will be a mess, whatever you do (unless you use a
> huge hierarchy of genre and artists which would be horrible). But you
> don't have to care about this if you can just tell the computer what
> kind of Music it should show you (what you recently listened to, your
> favorites, music from a certain artist or genre, and so on). In fact it
> would not even be necessary to have a Music folder, if the system could
> simply take all the music files on your computer (and other computers?)
> for the database.

So if I'm not mistaken you want to go from a concept where the user uses 
folders to store stuff and manually manage all his files to limiting the 
amount of folders and manage them virtually if you want. Filters could be 
applied on all sorts of criteria, even time last or most accessed. If it 
would be possible that would be a great step forwards in managing files.

But I think the question "in panel or on desktop or wherever" wouldn't 
really matter if things would go in that direction because you limit the 
amount of actual folders you make and space isn't an issue anymore. Given 
that system, things would condense automatically so you could even put 
everything in on Nautilus window.

Case closed?

Koen

ps. Just a sidenote, working with filters and virtual folders -if you can 
call it that- would make it pretty hard to backup specific stuff without a 
really good tag/labelling system.