I want to tag everything
Posted by Tim Riley Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:09:00 GMT
Desktop apps that would be much cooler and more useful for me if they came with tagging abilities:
- iTunes (genres are so Interface 1.0)
- Thunderbird/Evolution
- Nautilus (though this looks like it is already in the works)
For this reason, I’m really looking forward to seeing more of Leaftag in GNOME.
Tagging has already made its way into desktop photo management apps, such as f-spot and iPhoto, I suppose thanks to the influence of sites like flickr. I wonder why this has so far not moved far out of this realm?
Tim – do you del.icio.us? Here’s my tag farm: http://del.icio.us/aqualung
wmii-3 (the windowmanager) uses tagging instead of virtual desktops.
Matt: heh, I actually tried wmii-3 just two days ago, along with this ruby configuration, but I just couldn’t get used to it. I like to use spatial nautilus and I depend on a few GNOME panel applets and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to integrate those into a wmii setup. I did think its tagging workspaces thing was pretty cool though, I might have to give it another try in the future…
Ric: Actually I have never used one of those social bookmarking services, but now that you mention it, I should probably give it a try, I’ll sign up this weekend… either to del.icio.us or ma.gnolia.com
I know this is completely off-topic and I apologize for it, but I have a small bug with ObConf. Where should I report it? Thanks!
You should check out GLS ³: http://www.glscube.org/
No Gnome tool support, but you can at least mount it as a filesystem.