Re: labeling interface idea

[Manuel Amador <rudd-o amautacorp com>]

I caught what you meant, and it's a good user model.  But the system
model you propose is way too complicated and error-prone.

It would be better to save the labels as extended attributes (Beagle
already uses them extensively, only recently did they provide an
alternative backend which is much slower), index them via the audit
layer in linux and a updatedb-style sweeper on other oses (or reuse the
beagle infrastructure).

El mar, 12-07-2005 a las 20:06 -0400, Greg Steffensen escribió:
> Hey- I'm an undergraduate CS major currently participating in Google's
> SoC for Inkscape.  There was a project I almost submitted to Gnome,
> but ultimately decided it was too large to be doable in Google's
> timeframe; its still something I'm interested in doing though, and I
> was hoping to find out whether its something Gnome could support in a
> similar manner (minus the Google funds, naturally).  
> 
> Briefly, I'd like to add something similar to the labeling
> functionality in gmail to the linux desktop; I've attached a (much!)
> more detailed proposal.  I'm sure that the Gnome community would be
> happy to see me work on this, but I'm actually looking for something
> more along the lines of a straight yes/no as to whether its something
> the developers could provisionally endorse and provide mentoring for.
> If so, I'd work on it for credit as independent study through my
> university (Gnome would have no interaction with my school, I just
> wouldn't want to take something like this on without community
> assistance).  Regardless, any feedback about the proposal is welcome.
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg
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