My photos are in the photos app (and they're not "files"). I can tap share, and send them to WhatsApp / Telegram / Email.
This somewhat unifies the "photo selection and sharing" interface of all applications in one place. It's also good for security since I can deny all these apps access to my library.
Also, on any app when saving an image, it also goes into photos. There's no filesystem, it goes into a dedicated "photos" storage, and I can later find it there to use it for whatever (also, copy-pasting images in modern OS's is fabulous).
It's quite clear that he proposal from the article aligns well with slowly shifting away from a "files" mentality. Honestly, I'd love to see a "Photos" app on Linux that handles all my images files, and stop using the cli / file manager to treat them as files (e.g.: drop one level of abstraction).
My photos are in the photos app (and they're not "files"). I can tap share, and send them to WhatsApp / Telegram / Email.
This somewhat unifies the "photo selection and sharing" interface of all applications in one place. It's also good for security since I can deny all these apps access to my library.
Also, on any app when saving an image, it also goes into photos. There's no filesystem, it goes into a dedicated "photos" storage, and I can later find it there to use it for whatever (also, copy-pasting images in modern OS's is fabulous).
It's quite clear that he proposal from the article aligns well with slowly shifting away from a "files" mentality. Honestly, I'd love to see a "Photos" app on Linux that handles all my images files, and stop using the cli / file manager to treat them as files (e.g.: drop one level of abstraction).