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I've collected a few thousand images. Mostly from boorus, but also from an assortment of other places. I've never had an organization system except keeping them in folders with about 200 files in each, making new ones as needed.
A lot of the time, even when I know I have an image, I'll look for it on a booru just because I know it's faster, which is frustrating. So I thought I'd try to start adding tags to my image files. JPG supports this, at least on windows, PNG doesn't. Okay, well there's a program that fixes that.
https://github.com/Dijji/FileMeta
Thing is though, it's not transferable to others(unless it's a JPG which already supports tags), so the (very tedious)work I put in can't benefit others. And I can't benefit from it either if I want to transfer my files to a new os install(unless there's a way to export that information).
This whole thing is just terrible. Yeah, I've heard of Hydra, but that doesn't integrate with the rest of your system. You're putting another, separate layer on top of the system, which I find messy and unsatisfying. I like using the built-in file explorer to explore my files.
This got me thinking about desktops in a more general sense. Really, all image formats should support tag meta-data. And that's not even talking about other types of files. Ideally, the image creator would tag the file, and then nobody else would have to do that work again, unless they want even more specific tags. The assumption should be that people will download a lot of image files, and they'll want to search for them, and there should be a built-in system which enables that. Users would then form certain standards on their own.
I think most of the good things about desktop operating systems where invented in the 90s and early 2000s, when people mostly needed computers as an isolated work-station. As the internet became more important, it started to subsume functionality that used to belong to host machines. It's even begun to encroach on the concept of local storage. So most niceties that exist on desktop operating systems, are relics of a bygone era, and aren't going to be further developed. Instead of the OS changing in ways that utilize the internet so users can more efficiently communicate and share information, it only changed in ways to further connect users with companies, which are always middle-men between users.
Smart phones are the most degraded form of computer in terms of empowering the user, and that's the direction I think desktops are going. And if you think Linux is capable of innovating the desktop, something can't innovate if it hasn't figured out the most basic things, which it hasn't and never will. At best, it can create superficial ui trends and poorly integrated, half-baked, non-standardized layers to put on top of the base system.
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