'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow?

IceFox writes "In the past few years many of us have been introduced to a new type of application, the Type Manager. Most of us are familiar with iTunes, but there are many other Type Managers out there that are gaining market share and a rabid fan base of users such as digiKam and amaroK. Type Managers seem to have that magic combinations of features that makes users love them. I have been taken a closer look at the Type Manager, what makes them so usefull, what they really provide for the user and came to some surprising results. After creating a list of all the traits of a Type Manager I was able to define exactly what a file manager should be and discovered that there are in fact many partial Type Managers out there now that implemented only half of what makes up a full Type Manager."

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Re:Stop the presses!

[idontgno]

FWIW, my complaint is the reverse. I wanted to install QuickTime on my WinXP box. "Oh, lookie, it's bundled with iTunes. OK, that's fine, I'll just install the whole stinkin' batch and uninstall iTunes later."

Click. Click. Download. Agree (blindly) to EULA. Download some more.

Windows MSI installer gronks grinds.

Oh. Great. iTunes installed, QuickTime didn't. WTF?

What's up with that?