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[openbeos] Re: Opentracker suggestions

From: "Matt Verran" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 14:10:50 BST (+0100)

Guys,

A zip-fs add-on is mostly of use to newbies, I suggest if we do 
implement it at some point, we make it seamless, maybe zip icons should 
be folders? zip confuses the hell out of most new users I know, path 
names just aren't something they understand properly!

Regards,
Matt

> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > > > discussion, I dropped it: you can't do it transparent for 
> > > > > other
> > > > > applications as well, at least not in a nice way.
> > > > > What we will do though, is a ZIP file system - this brings 
> > > > > full
> > > > > transparency even for other applications.
> > 
> > > If you mean adding transpoarent zip file support inside BFS, it 
> > > won't 
> > > happen.
> > 
> > Yes, but why not a zip filesystem addon, and maybe an OpenTracker 
> > addon
> > which automounts zip "drives" and is able to to browse them, modify 
> > them,
> > et cetera, using Tracker.  The only problem I see is monitoring 
> > when 
> > to
> > unmount such drives (would this be automatic).
> 
> All of this has been possible for years, if someone would bother 
> writing a zip file system. For most people, however, such a program 
> was 
> of limited utility, and so no one ever got around to writing it.
> -Nathan
> 
> --
> Fortune Cookie Says:
> 
> It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about 
> the
> problem.
> 
>

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