I'm not a programmer so I'm not sure if I understand this. I can imagine that my computer would not be able to open every file type in the world but when I receive something exotic I could download some kind of translator. How many filetypes does a typical computer user has anyway -.doc for documents , AAC or MP3 for music, some more for images and quite a few for video. I already have programs that can let me see each of those. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to build this ability in to the OS? If they add the possibility to add translators for new file types I see no problem. It is different when you are talking about editing documents. In this case I would have to choose the program I want to open it with. And what I can change on the document will depend on the capacities of that program.
I agree with you. A better search is very important. But what I want most of all is getting rid of having to save files or opening them.
I believe it should be possible to have every document, video, mp3 or whatever open at the same time. The OS should handle all saving and versioning whithout me having to tell it to do so. Imagine having something like iPhoto combined with iTunes and Spotlight for all your files. You could start a movie or edit a document by clicking on it's thumbnail, get a kind of dedicated desktop with all connected documents, emails and other project data by entering a search in Spotlight.
We are almost there but we have to change the way we think. It used to be usefull to have a hierarchy on our desktop. It was easier to find stuff back. But now we have so many files on our computer this metaphore doesn't cut it anymore. Most of the files we have were created elsewhere anyway so why would I have to decide to store it - the OS is better in this anyway. Also we need to create a document centered OS. Standard viewer for documents, movies, music etc and the user can decide which data on or in the document to edit with what kind of program.
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I'm not a programmer so I'm not sure if I understand this. I can imagine that my computer would not be able to open every file type in the world but when I receive something exotic I could download some kind of translator. .doc for documents , AAC or MP3 for music, some more for images and quite a few for video.
How many filetypes does a typical computer user has anyway -
I already have programs that can let me see each of those. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to build this ability in to the OS? If they add the possibility to add translators for new file types I see no problem.
It is different when you are talking about editing documents. In this case I would have to choose the program I want to open it with. And what I can change on the document will depend on the capacities of that program.
I agree with you. A better search is very important. But what I want most of all is getting rid of having to save files or opening them.
I believe it should be possible to have every document, video, mp3 or whatever open at the same time. The OS should handle all saving and versioning whithout me having to tell it to do so.
Imagine having something like iPhoto combined with iTunes and Spotlight for all your files. You could start a movie or edit a document by clicking on it's thumbnail, get a kind of dedicated desktop with all connected documents, emails and other project data by entering a search in Spotlight.
We are almost there but we have to change the way we think. It used to be usefull to have a hierarchy on our desktop. It was easier to find stuff back. But now we have so many files on our computer this metaphore doesn't cut it anymore. Most of the files we have were created elsewhere anyway so why would I have to decide to store it - the OS is better in this anyway.
Also we need to create a document centered OS. Standard viewer for documents, movies, music etc and the user can decide which data on or in the document to edit with what kind of program.