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Database File System

Posted by Hemos on from the no-matching-records dept.

ozy writes "With all the fuss about searching and Spotlight and WinFS, check out the Database File System a completely different interface for your files, implemented in KDE. There is actually a request for developers to join a project to implement this under GNOME and leave how we use the desktop today behind."

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  1. "Implementing in GNOME" by kosmosik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Such thing should be implemented at kernel level to be transparent for *any* aplication. Without this it will just lead to a mess (like 4 different implementations) and some apps working with it and most not. As f.e. you can browse SMB network with Nautilus but when you actually try to open a file (from SMB via Nautilus) in OpenOffice.org you will get a info that viewer does not support this method... It must be a standard system routine not another level between system and GUI.

  2. Re:Performance? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Depends on what you are using your computer for of course.

    You can say the same thing for a GUI, and its correct for certain applications of computers, but wrong in others.