[haiku-development] Re: [GSoC proposal] IMAP FS - An outsider's thoughts
- From: pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:01:58 -0700
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:48:38PM +0100, Adrien Destugues wrote:
> Le 15/04/2011 22:41, pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> >I do have one slightly radical suggestion though, that might make
> >a FS more generally useful. Make each message its own*folder*!
> >
> >What d'you think?
> That makes it pretty annoying to do the usual task, that is, just
> reading my mails.
> It makes queries unuseable (as you can't see the whole message there,
> only part of it).
>
> Not something I'd use... It's starting to move in the "let's make an FS
> anyway, because it's cool" direction, despite the huge stack of problems
> it seems to cause...
>
To be totally honest, that's my basic feeling too. Not everything works
better as a filesystem. But I thought that at least might make mail
contents more easily available to other apps. (I just had to go and
save off some jpgs that someone sent me, for example.)
-- Pete --
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