http://blog.kyd.com.au/desktop-metaphors/ News and critique of web standards and related tech. Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:50:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.kyd.com.au/desktop-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-1062 nekostar Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:01:56 +0000 http://techtoucian.net/muse/2007/08/31/Desktop_Metaphors#comment-1062 <p>yeah - thats basically the kinda file system that bill gates wanted to do with vista... sounds like a good sql database could keep track of something like that - tho it would obviously need to be screwed back into the gui, how about in nautilus add a third bit to the 'places' menu - a. drives b. bookmarks c. hot could be done fairly easily and anyone with decent resolution on their screen should have room for a few 'hot' folders - perhaps that could be one of the configurable bits? or perhaps integrate that into the places > recent documents heirchy also - a folders section rather than just a files section...</p> yeah – thats basically the kinda file system that bill gates wanted to do with vista…
sounds like a good sql database could keep track of something like that – tho it would obviously need to be screwed back into the gui,
how about in nautilus add a third bit to the ‘places’ menu – a. drives b. bookmarks c. hot
could be done fairly easily and anyone with decent resolution on their screen should have room for a few ‘hot’ folders – perhaps that could be one of the configurable bits?
or perhaps integrate that into the places > recent documents heirchy also – a folders section rather than just a files section…

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