In short it is a virtual file system. However it takes the concept further in several respects (for a fuller answer read the "about" page):<div><br></div><div>* it mounts lots more than an ordinary VFS - including XML documents (so the tree of the document can be browsed), databases, X (so that window position and size for example can be read and modified as if they were data in the filesystem), web browser bookmarks... </div>
<div>* it extracts useful metadata from all of these things and treats it in a consistent way, it also allows the user to add meta-data. </div><div>* an interesting feature it has is "agents" who will intelligently tag items (files etc) giving a certain confidence that they are such a thing, the user can then accept or reject these tags. I can imagine this interacting very usefully with the whole "activities" thing, where intelligent suggestions as to what should be a part of your activity could make the whole experience much more useful.</div>
<div>* ... much more (I mentioned before it works on maemo, can talk to Nepomuk, has a REST interface)</div><div><br></div><div>.. all of which leads to the "uniform method of access" I mentioned where all sorts of document data, document structure and metadata becomes available in a a uniform way. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As to the previous question about MS Windows support, I am having a look at what would be required to compile on that platform.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>C<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 13 May 2012 10:53, David Faure <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:faure@kde.org" target="_blank">faure@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Friday 11 May 2012 21:33:35 Casper Clemence wrote:<br>
> Libferris is an awesome piece of technology. It provides not just the<br>
> traditional features of a VFS but a uniform method of access for<br>
> applications and users to a large and expanding range of things<br>
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</div>What does it do exactly, and how?<br>
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