Feature request: browsing filesystem in gnome "computer" menu
Peter Damoc
pdamoc at gmx.net
Thu Nov 18 01:05:47 CST 2004
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:13:20 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> <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. :-)
OSX will have it in Tiger and Tiger is just around the corner, I mean it is due about the same time as Hoary.
Beagle should get into one of Hoary's repositories ASAP so that more people get exposed to it... you know... so that more bugs could become visible.
> - Jeff
>
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