Jens Benecke discusses the relative of merits of KDE and OS X.

For example, he has experienced the same frustration I have witnessed with iPhoto’s (an OS X application) way of organizing things:

Also, I think Apple overdid integration at some point. Consider iTunes and iPhoto. I don’t like the fact that they basically reinvent the file manager. This forces you to learn a different interface to manage your files. It also kills the possibility to organize your files the way you want it. For example, I play in a band. I have a folder “Band” in my home folder. This folder contains “Originals”, “Gigs”, “Repertoire”, “New” and so on. “Originals” contains MP3s of the songs we play. Repertoire and New contain one dir for each song, and in this directory, there are scores (PDF, Garageband, Lilypond, etc), lyrics, further MP3s, recordings, pictures and so on. In the “Gigs” folder there are pictures and video/audio recordings of performances, demo tapes of performances etc.

So, basically I have organized my files according to purpose, not file type. The seperation of iTunes / iPhoto / iMovie etc. forces me to seperate my files according to file type. I could theoretically reorganize everything (about 2000 files), then create “intelligent folders” for each and everything in every application (why are these folders not shared?) and then tag the files so they get sorted into the right folders. Problem with that is: the tagging mechanism is not standardized. I can apply any number of free-form tags to photos. I can’t do that with MP3s and PDFs, for example. Plus, these tags would probably get lost when synchronizing with our band’s FTP server directory, which is shared by a dozen people. Directory information doesn’t.