Re: [OT] Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
Re: [OT] Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
- Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Stupid, Stupid Text Features [Was: Can't set creator type]
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:16:18 -0600
On 2/25/04 4:16 AM, "Brennan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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One could hope that the reason we are in such limbo right now with regard
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to metadata and file typing is that Apple is still planning to implement
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some kind of database in the file system, like in the old (and still
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impressive) BeOS.
Doubtful, since Dominic and the rest left the database idea behind because
it was quite problematic.
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Even Microsoft is planning to to do this, so we'll not even need to have
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it on the Mac - and (the really scary thing is) users will expect some
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degree of interoperability with whatever Microsoft comes up with. Worst
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cast scenario is Apple hiding its head in the sand and claiming that it's
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not important.
It's not really required for what we want, and MS's implementation isn't
exactly what we're thinking of here. You're really talking about something
the AS/400 has had for decades.
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That is apparently what they are doing now, but I find it hard to believe.
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Is Apple really going to let MS lead the 'database file system' charge?
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Here's another interesting and relevant read:
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<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24648.html>
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(Does anyone know if these guys are still at Apple?)
Last I heard yes, and if you notice, they abandoned the DB FS with BeOS.
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Offering eight colored labels is small potatoes compared to what we could
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have in an ideal Finder: The ability to create our own custom fields and
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characteristics for labeling files.
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Concepts like 'mood', 'priority', 'last read date', 'last renamed date'
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and so on would all have obvious usefulness over and above the usual
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metadata examples of 'writer', 'director', 'artist' etc.
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Imagine if 'creator' really meant 'the app that created the file' instead
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of 'the app that will open it and provide its icon for the Finder'. I've
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often been in situations where that would be a useful distinction to have
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made.
None of which require a database filesystem.
john
--
No matter how long the river, the river will reach the sea.
-Eugene Fitch Ware
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