From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 8: 2:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7003937B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:02:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639A543F18 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:02:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kmacmillan@coresolutions.ca) Received: from localhost ([65.92.124.69]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030110160244.OXYK8252.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost> for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:02:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:03:15 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: anyone working on a new file system metaphor? From: Kieren MacMillan To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <0747734E-24B5-11D7-9116-00306572DA52@coresolutions.ca> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, all you BSD hackers! A major change to the "file-folder-desktop" metaphor is long overdue, and it seems to me that FreeBSD -- with Mac OS X as a large and growing "child" -- is the perfect place to start the revolution... ;-) If anyone has seen Scopeware (), you'll know the kind of thing I'm thinking of: a universal indexing system where *any* file of *any* type in *any* location would be cross-referenced (using metadata as well as content where possible) in one or more "filters" or "streams". Is anybody working on such a fundamental change? If not, is there any interest in starting such a project? I'm not the world's most experienced programmer (mostly Java, some XML/XSLT, a little RealBASIC, etc.), but I'm a good project manager and technical writer, if that would help. [n.b. Please cc my email address in any responses, as I'm not currently subscribed to the full mailing list.] Best regards, Kieren MacMillan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message