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Sounds like you long for the days of BeOS :)
by warrenm 4y ago
Sounds like you long for the days of BeOS :)
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoDoes BeOS work this way?! Maybe I need to play with it. I booted Haiku in a VM once or twice but never really dig in further.
- Jtsummers 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b... BFS does some of the kinds of things you're interested in.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI don't think this is related?
- Jtsummers 4y agoBFS is the BeOS filesystem. It's what enables applications to share content without having to directly share things, it's kind of related to what you're interested in in that the filesystem then becomes a communal database. Email isn't dumped into an (whatever the extension) Outlook file, each email is placed in a directory with metadata permitting a filesystem wide query. Calendar entries would be the same. So all users can drop calendar event cards (or whatever) into the filesystem with, say, the date, time, duration, and other metadata. Then anyone can create a calendar app or integrate calendaring into their own application. Even if just to view the data.
- warrenm 4y agoBeOS allowed widgets (I think was their term) whereby parts (or entire) of applications could be embedded in others - https://www.waltercedric.com/gadget/beos/ https://www.waltercedric.com/gadget/beos/ - https://www.howtogeek.com/696193/what-was-beos-and-why-did-people-love-it/ https://www.howtogeek.com/696193/what-was-beos-and-why-did-p... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS