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2009-06-10 , 09:51
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
You might have 1000 songs or videos but you are supposed to browse them with your media player.
No, I am not supposed to browse them with my media player. I am supposed to open a file manager and see these 1000 songs, as files, copy them, delete them, rename, them, etc.

You might have 1000 images but you are supposed to browse them with your image viewer.
Wrong again. I am supposed to open a file manager and see these image files there. Furthermore, the file manager should let me apply normal file operations to them (copy, move, delete, rename, see metadata, see content).

You might have 1000 files inside a single folder that are not songs, videos or images... what are they?
They may be arbitrary documents in arbitrary formats. Why am I supposed to tell you what my files are?

Do you really have that?
Yes, I do.

Going through 1000 files (and perhaps only 100 too) is going to be an unpleasant experience no matter how much real estate you have for that.
No, it is actually quite decent, as long as you have the right file manager. Both FAR Manager and the standard Windows Explorer handle this situation quite well by letting you sort files by different characteristics (names, dates, sizes, etc.). The Maemo file manager is obviously quite terrible at this task but it does not mean we are not supposed to do it, as users.

Regular desktops are minimizing the relevance of the file manager accessing the files you want from applications or global searches. I'd say file managers are even less relevant in mobile devices.
Both of these statements are really opinions, not facts.

Do you think Maemo users start opening the File Manager to find something? What?
Yes, Quim, they do. And suffer too, because the current file selection dialog is such a royal pain in the tukhes.
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