[ge-talk] Feedback on R2 Deskbar Mockup

[Waldemar Kornewald]

On 12/18/06, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Waldemar Kornewald wrote
> I hope that it would organize everything for me automatically so that i
> won't have to mess with it too much. The idea is the OS should macro
> organize with general accepted tags (ie music, games) and I will micro
> organize with my own tags (players, songs, genre, strategy games).
> Chances are most people won't take the time to think about their own tags.
> but their desktop shouldn't be a total mess.
>
> Our weakness can be our strength because we can set UI guidelines from a
> pretty small app base.

Of course, but you currently have to do this organization manually,
too. You create folders to structure your data and many people
* don't know how to do it
* don't do it
* do it ineffectively and can't find anything in their structures
We already have that mess. We just don't deal with so many files that
it becomes totally apparent. My friend has multiple hard drives and
all his data is spread in folders with strange names. When I ask him
to find something he browses all hard drives and multiple folders and
often wonders "hmm, where did I put those files again?". It takes a
lot of time to find something and in the end he always uses the
Windows search feature.

> > Please read this article (it's pretty technical, though):
> > http://haiku-os.org/node/108
> > We will eliminate installation for most applications. It will be as
> > simple as downloading or copying the app. After that, it will
> > automatically be known to the system. Just open the app (with Tracker
> > or Deskbar) to run it. No installation.
>
> one of the problems is that we have a file manager, tracker, explorer,
> desktop or whatever and if we delete a file, everything is messed up. it's
> messed up if i try to move file around. So we need another app , an
> uninstaller, to do it. That's stupid. It should be integrated so that if you
> see an icon for an app on your desktop, you should be able to get rid of it
> by throwing it in the trash.

You probably haven't read the article...
That's *exactly* the way it will work. You can move apps around
without any problems. You can transfer them between hard drives and
partitions.
Just delete the app file (either from Tracker or Deskbar) and the app
automatically gets uninstalled.

For the end-user the app is just one single file and he never has to
mess with the ugly details.

Bye,
Waldemar Kornewald