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: Brennan <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:16:57 +0100
On 24/2/04 at 22:39, Helmut Fuchs <email@hidden> wrote:
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For an interesting discussion of WHY this shouldn't do for the rest of
us:
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<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q3/metadata/metadata-1.html>
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Sorry for pasting so off topicly, but I really think this should be
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recommended reading for those guys who made MacOS X so un-Mac like...
Excellent article which remains relevant despite being from August 2001.
One could hope that the reason we are in such limbo right now with regard
to metadata and file typing is that Apple is still planning to implement
some kind of database in the file system, like in the old (and still
impressive) BeOS.
Even Microsoft is planning to to do this, so we'll not even need to have
it on the Mac - and (the really scary thing is) users will expect some
degree of interoperability with whatever Microsoft comes up with. Worst
cast scenario is Apple hiding its head in the sand and claiming that it's
not important.
That is apparently what they are doing now, but I find it hard to believe.
Is Apple really going to let MS lead the 'database file system' charge?
Here's another interesting and relevant read:
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/24648.html>
(Does anyone know if these guys are still at Apple?)
Offering eight colored labels is small potatoes compared to what we could
have in an ideal Finder: The ability to create our own custom fields and
characteristics for labeling files.
Concepts like 'mood', 'priority', 'last read date', 'last renamed date'
and so on would all have obvious usefulness over and above the usual
metadata examples of 'writer', 'director', 'artist' etc.
Imagine if 'creator' really meant 'the app that created the file' instead
of 'the app that will open it and provide its icon for the Finder'. I've
often been in situations where that would be a useful distinction to have
made.
tell app "Finder"
tell window 1
select (items whose mood is in {"disgruntled", "hopeful"})
end tell
end tell
Brennan
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