Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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I'm a big fan of meta data and the power it could provide users with in organizing themselves. But I'm always put off by having to enter a lot of it manually. I know that a lot of people wouldn't mind adding metadata to their photo collections and such, but as a graphic artist, I keep so many stock images, textures etc. around that it simply isn't feasable to do this manually for each file.
In essence there needs to be a way to easily apply meta data sets, or individual metadata components to multiple files in one go. Adobe tries something like this in their new album software but the interface is too clunky and slow to make it work nicely.
I'm thinking of perhaps a special side pane that holds meta attributes in a navigable interface, in the form of icons or somesuch that you could drag a file, or selection of files onto to give them the desired metadata attribute or set of attributes.
Any thoughts?