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?
The real problem with this argument is that data is not things; it is a nice metaphor but it just isn't true. But if you insist on that metaphor: Just about anything from a ODT document to an e-mail message is itself composed of constituent parts; an e-mail address has a body, attachments, a subject, recipients... The context those parts create for each other are what make the e-mail valuable. A kitchen knife is a kitchen knife - in everyday reality nobody [except a chef] cares about the alloy the blade is made out of or the type of plastic the handle is made out of. But I care allot about the e-mails I've exchanged with customer X. And "why would anyone need that?" Because there is useful data captured in all those things. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org