[ciniglio]

Does this reflect poorly on the file abstraction, or the file picking interface that so many programs tend to use? If you were writing an email, would it really by more intuitive to first select what kind of thing you are attaching before diving into a hierarchical structure, or worse yet, before diving into a monolithic list? It seems to me that it would be better if we can improve how we get the user to pick files (or generally interact with files) instead of doing away with the notion of a file altogether.