Feature request: browsing filesystem in gnome "computer" menu

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Peter Damoc">

> If I would get to choose something this:
> http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/
> would be it. So how about it? Why not throw more money/developers at it?
> OSX and Longhorn brag about a feature like this and from my point of view 
> this really is revolutionary... it could free a
> lot of people from the tyranny of the file system.

OS X doesn't have it, Longhorn's WinFS has a better model (but is massively
ambitious, and they've delayed it for a long time). OS X is betting on an
aggressive search/index system, which is very similar to GNOME's Beagle. So
that's what we're waiting on atm. :-)

- Jeff

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