[Panel-devel] The ALI: do we really need or want it?

[Janne Ojaniemi]

On Monday 09 January 2006 00:38, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> There is a simple rule of design that says "easy things should be easy to
> do, and complex ones, should at least be possible". Your approach sounds
> interesting for the easy cases, but I really don't see that the complex
> ones are possible.

They are possible just fine.

> But there is a serious problem in this approach: how do you present to the
> user his content? Browse emails is done in a _very_ different way than is
> done for music files, or photographs, or documents.

Is it, really? the UI in iTunes and iPhoto for example seem to be quite 
similar. You can group both by content, keywords and the like.

> You also forget to mention that the user might want to choose which
> application to use to open which content. All this stuff just make me think
> in konqueror. With it you can browse your content (yes, in a different way,
> I know), and just click on the file to open it with a default application,
> or choose which one with the right click menu.

And you couldn't do that with the Content-menu, because.....?