Use of the "Other" category in desktop files

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 21:25:45 UTC 2006


On 3/14/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
> Database probably is the closest, but that isn't what I would think of -
> in my mind I would associate database with something designed to manage
> a database server.

You'll notice that in the reference AudioVisual is a related Category
to the Database category. I'm pretty sure the implication here is that
the Database category is suppose to encompse applications which keep a
database of AudioVisual crap... because well.. everyone and their
brother seems to have a great "new" way to cateloging dvd's and music.
You can not explain why AudioVisual is a related category using a
narrow definition of the Database catelog which means on "manage a
database server."
Clearly in the context in the reference provided by the related
category column suggests people were originally thinking a database of
crap... Goumet just expands the bounds of the type of crap beyond
audio/visual.   Just think of Gourmet as a really really bad
audiovisual catelog of music videos about food where the recipe is the
lyrics and it doesn't actually play any audio and the video is only a
single still frame of the end result.


-jef"Once we actually have viable technology which allows for
inclusion of aroma as well as audio and visual tracks inside an ogg
container, we will be forced to rethink how we catelog all sorts of
"media" catelogs.  Sure, the movie Bud the Chud could be filed under
"stinky" no matter which human sense you wished to catelog.. but for a
lot of other things it becomes much more complicated.  Gourmet could
be extended to be the ultimate aroma-therapy application! Who wants to
smell the soothing smells of a cool ocean breeze, when instead you
could dial up the smell of your favorite recipe for fried chicken and
play that back with Gourmet!!!!!!"spaleta




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