mathematician wrote:
It seems to me that the average user knows little, and cares less, about objects or methods. What they want to know is where they can find that letter they typed up last night, and that is what the OS should serve up. Your operating system sounds like one which might interest computer science aficionados, but nobody else.
Average users don't see the file system data structures at all. What you are talking about is the User Interface, which allows them to quickly find specific data based on certain criteria.
I am working on a file system (minus the files, of course) that will allow the User Interface to provide this functionality to search for and find specific information (Documents, Videos, Images, etc.) quickly by building in the concept of objects, classes and indexes at the file system level. Most operating systems rely on the application to handle all of this data-specific logic. I am trying to move that logic to the OS / File System level, so that it is available to all applications, including the command line shell.