Comments on: Tagging and the GNOME Desktop http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/ Virtualization, Open Source, and Life Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:41:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Wilkins http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-41929 Jeremy Wilkins Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:25:12 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-41929 Evidently it didn't like my < or >'s in the previous message... We were looking for /t/gra<tab> /t/graphics/a<tab> adidas anthro apple /t/graphics/ap<tab><enter> Evidently it didn’t like my < or >’s in the previous message…
We were looking for
/t/gra<tab>
/t/graphics/a<tab>
adidas anthro apple
/t/graphics/ap<tab><enter>

]]> By: Jeremy Wilkins http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-41928 Jeremy Wilkins Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:23:09 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-41928 I realize this may be a big wish, but I would love to see this implemented at the shell as well--if we were able to do something along the lines of: /t/gra /t/graphics/a adidas anthro apple /t/graphics/ap And see all the files with these tags? Imagine! I realize this may be a big wish, but I would love to see this implemented at the shell as well–if we were able to do something along the lines of:

/t/gra
/t/graphics/a
adidas anthro apple
/t/graphics/ap

And see all the files with these tags?
Imagine!

]]> By: david’s bloggy journal! » GNOME API documentation http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 david’s bloggy journal! » GNOME API documentation Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:04:48 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-1045 [...] A couple weeks ago, while working on a gnome-vfs module for Chippy’s super-sexy tagging system, I noticed that gnome-python has no API documentation. No HTML, no docstrings, nothing. In order to find out a method signature, I had to look in the source code and decipher the python/C binding code. [...] [...] A couple weeks ago, while working on a gnome-vfs module for Chippy’s super-sexy tagging system, I noticed that gnome-python has no API documentation. No HTML, no docstrings, nothing. In order to find out a method signature, I had to look in the source code and decipher the python/C binding code. [...]

]]> By: Rudd-O http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-963 Rudd-O Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:44:59 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-963 There's a response to this controversy here: http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/02/15/common-reasons-to-turn-down-extended-attributes-for-tags-and-rebuttals/ There’s a response to this controversy here:

http://rudd-o.com/archives/2006/02/15/common-reasons-to-turn-down-extended-attributes-for-tags-and-rebuttals/

]]> By: The R Zone http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-961 The R Zone Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:47:56 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-961 <strong>Common reasons to turn down extended attributes for tags, and rebuttals</strong> ChipLog » Blog Archive » Taggable Desktop says they’re not planning on implementing tags as Extended Attributes. I still disagree. I think the library should implement both a database for the user, and also write the tags out to extended attribut... Common reasons to turn down extended attributes for tags, and rebuttals

ChipLog » Blog Archive » Taggable Desktop says they’re not planning on implementing tags as Extended Attributes.

I still disagree. I think the library should implement both a database for the user, and also write the tags out to extended attribut…

]]> By: Nicolas http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Nicolas Sat, 14 Jan 2006 17:37:42 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-749 This is exactly what I have been wanting to write for a couple years and never got around to find time to do it. Best of all I understood it is python code. Any chance we get a look at the code and try it ? Thanks in advance. This is exactly what I have been wanting to write for a couple years and never got around to find time to do it. Best of all I understood it is python code. Any chance we get a look at the code and try it ? Thanks in advance.

]]> By: David Trowbridge http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-563 David Trowbridge Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:37:55 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-563 Jed: Emblems, window positions and window backgrounds are per-user, not system-wide, yet they share the same properties dialogs -- what's the difference? Jed: Emblems, window positions and window backgrounds are per-user, not system-wide, yet they share the same properties dialogs — what’s the difference?

]]> By: ChipX86 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-562 ChipX86 Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:17:59 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-562 Jed, it's not my fault that you aren't following the whole "tag craze" and misunderstand the purpose. I mean, I'm not the first one to do this. See Amazon, Flickr, last.fm, del.icio.us, F-Spot, and a half dozen other things that other people seem to have been able to keep track of. I'm developing something that I want to use. I know others want it too, so I'm making it public. <b>It's not done!</b> I can't believe how many times I've repeated that. You don't have to like this. I know you won't. Others will. Those are the people I care to design this for right now. Them and myself. Jed, it’s not my fault that you aren’t following the whole “tag craze” and misunderstand the purpose. I mean, I’m not the first one to do this. See Amazon, Flickr, last.fm, del.icio.us, F-Spot, and a half dozen other things that other people seem to have been able to keep track of. I’m developing something that I want to use. I know others want it too, so I’m making it public. It’s not done! I can’t believe how many times I’ve repeated that.

You don’t have to like this. I know you won’t. Others will. Those are the people I care to design this for right now. Them and myself.

]]> By: Jed http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Jed Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:55:06 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-561 If that's what tags are, then you really need to come up with a way to show this, because I (as a fairly advanced Linux geek, even) misunderstood, upon seeing them. (If I was feeling cynical, I might even go so far as to suggest that you don't understand what a file's "Properties" are for, or what spatial Nautilus is.) If some of the things on "Properties" are system-wide, and some are user-specific, (a) how would one realize this?, and (b) if one realized this, how would one know which are which? And even (c) why would you design something that has the potential to confuse people so horribly? Also, note that they look very very similar to the Mac's labels, but work completely differently; isn't this the very definition of "asking for trouble"? This could cause a lot of headaches... If that’s what tags are, then you really need to come up with a way to show this, because I (as a fairly advanced Linux geek, even) misunderstood, upon seeing them. (If I was feeling cynical, I might even go so far as to suggest that you don’t understand what a file’s “Properties” are for, or what spatial Nautilus is.)

If some of the things on “Properties” are system-wide, and some are user-specific, (a) how would one realize this?, and (b) if one realized this, how would one know which are which? And even (c) why would you design something that has the potential to confuse people so horribly? Also, note that they look very very similar to the Mac’s labels, but work completely differently; isn’t this the very definition of “asking for trouble”?

This could cause a lot of headaches…

]]> By: ChipX86 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/2005/12/07/tagging-and-the-gnome-desktop/comment-page-1/#comment-559 ChipX86 Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:01:52 +0000 http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=140#comment-559 Jed: You misunderstand what tags are for, then. Tags are a way for individual users to organize content in any way they see fit, Making them system-wide defeats the whole purpose. You don't have to agree, or use it, but that's just how tags are :) This system will not have support for system-wide tags. Jed: You misunderstand what tags are for, then. Tags are a way for individual users to organize content in any way they see fit, Making them system-wide defeats the whole purpose. You don’t have to agree, or use it, but that’s just how tags are :) This system will not have support for system-wide tags.

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