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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:37 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> dear damien,
>
> your idea about
>
> 	Devices (links to the devices:/ url)
> 	Personal Files (links to ~)
> 	Documents
> 	Music
> 	Pictures
> 	Settings
>
> makes a lot of sense [yes it's not new, but it's doable].
>
> i am also going to have to somehow hack into konqueror a means
> to TOTALLY remove user access to /bin, /var/ in fact everything
> but /home, /cdrom and /floppy.
>
> whilst also still making it possible to run programs, of course,
> so running konqueror in a chroot jail isn't an option to solve
> that issue.
>
> if the top-level were as you suggest, that'd be "Job Done".
>
> if the Devices only showed mounted drives / active devices that'd
> be even better.
>
> the reason for that is because when i view devices at the moment,
> users are presented with /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda5
> /dev/hda7 /dev/cdrom and it's just... too much.
>
> ... you think i want to explain those to dumb-ass idiots used to
> windows, or to people who've never _had_ a computer before?
>
> :)
>
> l.
>

Heh, well in Windows they do get views of all partitions, CDROM drives, etc. 
In devices it should show those things, but with decent names, e.g.

Hard Disk 1a
Hard Disk 2a
Hard Disk 1b
CDROM Drive 1
DVD Drive
CD WRITER
USB Storage Device
Canon A70 Digital Camera
Network Mount on "Winserver"


etc. One thing I forgot for that hierachy is of course the "network" 
meta-directory, for browsing the network.

Another one that I thought of could also be Mail. Emails are just files arent 
they? So if kmail provides the parser back end, you can browse your 
inbox/other boxes in the file manager, compose a new email, etc (click on 
"compose new email" would just launch the composer window of kmail).

I'm thinking, everything that is related to managing files, should be done by 
the file manager. But why do we have music library management programs (e.g. 
amaroK, itunes), photo library management programs, etc etc. It's because 
management at the raw file system level of folders/files is too tedious. So 
we bring file management to a whole new level by abstracting above and 
providing views actually relevent to the content being filed.

Hopefully in the next month or so when I'm not so busy I'll start writing some 
prototype code.

Damien

- -- 
Leela: Bender, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom? Are 
 you jacking on in there?
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