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Really? I’m quite happy that the world has been moving into another direction. You no longer have to browse your music or photos in the filesystem, you have a

by ugh 16y ago

Really? I’m quite happy that the world has been moving into another direction. You no longer have to browse your music or photos in the filesystem, you have a dedicated music or photos program. That seems ideal to me, I wouldn’t want my file browser to be a swiss army knife.

rbanffy 16y ago
But that's the point of what I was saying - when you are browsing your music, your filesystem browser becomes a music program. If you want to see files, switch back to files view and you are done. I am not saying this is how every file browsing should happen and how every program should behave, but, for some data types - like mail, videos, music - it makes a lot of sense
caf 16y ago
There's no need for it to be a completely separated interface, though - in theory, at the top level you could have "Files", "Music", "Photos", "Mail" and so on. When you descend into "Files", you see the root of a traditional filesystem, when you descend into "Music" you see a music-specific interface.
- ugh 16y ago
  Would you really want your file browser to become such a monster?
  - caf 16y ago
    It's really more of a question of "Why does my shell currently privilege file browsing above music or email browsing?" I would contend that it's for historical reasons more than anything else.