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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)Posted Oct 26, 2010 14:37 UTC (Tue) by jackb (subscriber, #41909)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) by rgmoore Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
"There are currently programs designed specifically to support that kind of searching for photographs, but it would be better if it were supported at the OS level."
You mean something like a filesystem that supported arbitrary file metadata and exposed it in a way that made it accessible to all programs without needing to go through a separate API?
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Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica) Posted Oct 26, 2010 19:13 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (subscriber, #75) [Link] Honestly, I'm more of a user than a developer, so I don't really care that much about implementation details. What I know as a relatively sophisticated user is that my files are automatically generated with a ton of useful metadata, but that the system does a really poor job of taking advantage of it to make my life easier. I don't know enough about the potential tradeoffs to know if it's better handled by the kernel maintaining extended file attributes or by having the desktop environment keep it in a relational database. What I do know is that there's lots of data that we're not taking full advantage of, and that seems very wasteful.
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