| From: | Jesse McClusky |
| Date: | 13 Sep 2000 at 08:23:31 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: ACR #1: Intelligent FileSystem |
> From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@home.com>
<snip>
> Yes, attributes in attributes could be used for listing multiple
> things, like the programs you can open a "file" with. Though
> BeOS uses the MIME type to generate that list, and only stores
> the prefered program if the user wants to override the default.
> This then leads to a long argument about whether there should
> be different prefered programs for printing, editing, showing
> etc :-).
Why shouldn't every program that's capable of doing something
be allowed to register itself with the system as being able to do
that, without conflicting with anything else?
> Or maybe everything should be an object. Just that some objects
> contain references to other ones, call them directories :-).
Gee... Sounds familiar... Oh, wait, that's right! That's what
me and Fleecy (among others) have been saying for years.... (:
Jesse
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