Re: Of applications and documents

[MJ Ray]

David Adam Bordoley <bordoley@msu.edu> wrote:
> real opportunity to escape the traditional application metaphor and instead 
> provide a documented oriented view of the user's system. 

Do you mean by moving to "everything is a document" (which has failed every
time I've seen it tried) or by using the current Services and Tools menus a
lot more (which I think we probably should do, but then we need to decide on
some "core services" which could be run by a system like Debian's
alternatives)?

Apologies for excessively long brackets...

> [...] abandon or at
> least supplement the traditional unix filesystem with a database oriented 
> search one (reiserfs may provide a solution here, although I'm not too 
> familiar with the details). 

Come on!  I manage my real files by putting them in wallets in files in
boxes on shelves in rooms... If I want quick searching, I keep an index
of them.  Are you really telling me you know of a better way?

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