Interesting concept. If Microsoft were to implement this, one would have to perform a thousand ‘heavy block’ finger pushups, if the user dares to delete persistent bloatware; just for the data to slip out of their hands, and having to do it all over.
Imagine if file weight corresponded to actual file size.
On spinning hard disks, it does.
neat idea, I like it. However, determining the value of a file by its size does not actually work as an analogy. There may be super important things that are stored as small text files while other huge files can be of less interest. But I do like to idea of playing with file “weight”-probably make the file heavier when doing permanent actions such as deleting?
I like this for moving files to SD cards. You could select a bunch of files and get an idea if they will fit without actually looking at the numbers. You would just get a feel for what, 16, 32, 64 gb feels like.
Back in the early 2000s, there was a desktop interface that explored this concept. Your desktop was displayed as an actual 3D desk, and you could stack files on top of each other, smack them into each other, etc, all with physical properties applied. The name, unfortunately, escapes me, though.
That might be BumpTop 3D. I remember having lots of fun with it in the XP days. Apparently it was acquired by Google at some point, and later open sourced.
