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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] One ioslave to rule them all...
From:       "Diego Moya \(a.k.a. TuringTest\)" <turingt () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-06-30 11:05:34
Message-ID: 11ee049405063004054f2bf8db () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 28/06/05, Kévin Ottens <ervin@ipsquad.net> wrote:
> And let's face it, you can't do everything using search for example, you'll
> ultimately need something to access your data and it'll surely be a
> hierarchy.
> 

I agree that search is not enough and needs a complement, but not that
hierarchies are good for accessing arbitrary data. I'm sure that
Faceted Navigation is the way to go (more difficult to implement than
a hierarchical filesystem, but much easier to use). See:

http://www.welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=faceted-navigation


And some examples:

http://iawiki.net/FacetedBrowsing

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