John Andersen wrote:
Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:52 +0100, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 14:53:02 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Disabling Beagle is well covered at
Lets face it beagle is nothing more than an excuse for a poorly organised filing system not on the machines behalf but on the side of the user
No, you are wrong.
, IF the user was to have a sensible way of creating storing and sorting his files in the first place there would be no need for the unmitigated resource hog in the first place it just allows people to be lax and untidy so there is no reason for it to be installed there is on the other hand a need to teach people to organise the machines .
And what 'organized' filesystem will let me see related IMs, documents, web content, e-mail, and contact information in one view derived from a single action? None.
And why would anyone need that?
Peter was addressing filesystem organization, but he could just as well have been addressing organization of your life.
Do you routinely keep all of your possessions in a heap in the middle of the floor? If not, why do you maintain your files and your life this way?
What room or shelf would you put a knife in? The kitchen? Ok, but then what about the knife room? All the kitchen knives are missing from the knife collection room. And all the knives are missing from the cutting tools room because they're in the knife room and the kitchen, oh and the razors in the bathroom those are missing too, oh and the garden shears out in the shed... Dang, what about the room that contains all the things made out of brass? Where are all your batteries? In the battery room? Why not? Aren't you organized? Why are they scattered all around in your watches, remotes, clocks, flashlights, your car, your wireless mouse at your office... A filesystem is a one-dimensional linear hierarchy and as such you can only use it to organize things by one single aspect per item. You have to choose one place for a document about oats , perhaps /research/chemistry/organic/food/oats/proteins.txt and as such, it can't also be in a list of all docs about proteins, or about plant diseases, or even about oats if the higher level interest of the moment was about mechanical properties or shipping statistics or the effects of weather patterns instead of organic chemistry. NO document has only one aspect. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org