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Subject: Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)
From: Dave Leigh <dave.leigh () cratchit ! org>
Date: 2002-05-20 10:14:56
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On Monday 20 May 2002 03:41, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Please forgive me thinking of implementation. I'm trying (stress on
> trying) to prepare an implementation so I always have this aspect in
> mind and am curious how others would do it :)
One other thing that occurred to me while I was sleeping...
While I agree with Steven that the directory is far too useful a concept to
discard, who says that I should be locked into *just one* directory
structure? I might want to present the filesystem the traditional way (in
what I'd call a "natural" directory structure), but I might also want to
present it in any of a number of programmatically determined hierarchies.
For instance, using recipes as an example... I might want to present the
documents grouped by ingredient, by ethnicity, OR by the appropriate wine
that goes with it. The same file might appear in more than one place if
appropriate (just as we currently use links). Project documentaton could be
displayed by system, by language, by project owner, etc. Right now I have no
idea how the user might choose from among these, but it's something that
becomes possible when you think in terms of a database, and consider the
directory as metadata.
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