From kde-panel-devel Fri Jan 27 06:59:45 2006 From: Andrey Cherepanov Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 06:59:45 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: [Panel-devel] The ALI: do we really need or want it? Message-Id: <200601270959.46468.sibskull () mail ! ru> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=113834620820686 26 Jan 2006 17:12, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > I was simply trying to say that one is still > > needed/wanted. > > But we also cannot store data like the iPod. We must provide a hierarchical > structure of directory for comfortable browsing with Konqueror, Nautilus > under GNOME, or simply the command line. > And of course we mustn't suppress the application-centric menu. > That's my opinion. Content is not couple of files and folders. Unfortunately there are a lot of useful information (contents) in specific applications: mbox, contacts, IM logs, etc. Best content mapping to files is realized in BeOS. But it requires specific filesystem. But even we make each conents part mapped to files (maildirs, separate vcards) some features will be lost because filesystem operate only small set of file attributes: filename, date (access and modifications) and ACL. How do we support extended attributes or additionally fields? Custom object order is also stronly needed. In both cases (store in application format and store as separate files) we need easy frontend browser (menu, desktop) with backend that accesses to any supported content (via application API and/or extracted meta info from separate files). I hope you understand my bad English ;) -- Andrey Cherepanov sibskull@mail.ru _______________________________________________ Panel-devel mailing list Panel-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel