Re: [Usability]URI's

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:29, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 18:20, 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
> 
> The one thing that I would find really nice, is to abstract the users
> view of the system so that it appears that the desktop (or whatever the
> doc refers to it as :) ) appears as the "root" of the system, similar to
> the pre-osX mac.

Though systems like this are very confusing if the "truth" ever pops
through. Right now, that would happen all the time because of non-GNOME
apps (and "gnome" apps that don't use VFS).

-Seth