Hey, This is a concept I thought of this afternoon, it's a slightly different way of managing files, and one that I think could be quite popular. This isnt a replacement for a directory tree, but more something that can be implemented at a software level and complement it quite nicely. If anyone here has used del.icio.us, flickr or technorati in the past, you would know how it arranges things, via tags. Each item has a range of one word tags. I considered using this approach for files this afternoon, and quickly created this mockup in glade. https://iphitus.no-ip.org/images/gtktag.png You save a file. You type in tags when saving the file. Those tags are available in the side pane along with bookmarks. You click a tag, the file chooser lists all items that are tagged with that. The tags of all the files could be stored in some sort of file in the user's home directory. By having tags like that, implemented in the GTK file chooser, they would become immediately accessable to every GTK app out there that uses it. Gimp, Gaim, Abiword, Firefox, Gnumeric, etc. Think of how much more effective a way of managing files it would be. You'd no longer be searching for a file, or wondering where you saved it, so long as you tagged it right, you'd be fine, hit the tag, pick the file. Is anyone else interested in this idea and possibly implementing it? James Rayner -- iphitus - www.iphitus.tk _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
