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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving Baloo forward
From:       Todd <toddrjen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-01-29 7:49:02
Message-ID: CAFpSVpJX8+wnzeh0RcE7Cwmho9v9Ytorqw1c1A363uT9HzCSLA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Rolf Eike Beer
<kde@opensource.sf-tec.de>wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan =C4=8Cuki=C4=87:
> > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and
> re-
> > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to
> take
> > > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB
> stick
> > > or so as interim medium.
> >
> > I'm all for xattrs, but this thread really raises a nice question of
> which
> > annotations/tags/whatever should be public and which should not.
>
> IMHO the default should be "privacy first". Probably everyone of us has
> laughed
> about someone who accidentially published either metadata or deleted text
> (remember MS Word document history or something)? I'm absolutely fine if
> you
> want this that you do this. But most people will not be aware of it, even
> less
> of the implications. So it should be deactivated by default and only
> activated
> explicitely.
>
> Eike



What about something like what Dolphin has now, where when you drop a file
on a removable filesystem or remote drive it pops up the current
copy/move/link option, but also has a checkbox (disabled by default buy
configurable) to "copy metadata" or "copy tags" or something along those
lines?

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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 \
at 10:06 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:kde@opensource.sf-tec.de" \
target="_blank">kde@opensource.sf-tec.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan \
Čukić:<br> <div class="im">&gt; &gt; To move a file to another machine and have the \
metadata be copied and re-<br> &gt; &gt; indexed on that new machine as well. The \
copy process just needs to take<br> &gt; &gt; care of transfering the xattr. This can \
even work when using a USB stick<br> &gt; &gt; or so as interim medium.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;m all for xattrs, but this thread really raises a nice question of \
which<br> &gt; annotations/tags/whatever should be public and which should not.<br>
<br>
</div>IMHO the default should be &quot;privacy first&quot;. Probably everyone of us \
has laughed<br> about someone who accidentially published either metadata or deleted \
text<br> (remember MS Word document history or something)? I&#39;m absolutely fine if \
you<br> want this that you do this. But most people will not be aware of it, even \
less<br> of the implications. So it should be deactivated by default and only \
activated<br> explicitely.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Eike</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">What \
about something like what Dolphin has now, where when you drop a file on a removable \
filesystem or remote drive it pops up the current copy/move/link option, but also has \
a checkbox (disabled by default buy configurable) to &quot;copy metadata&quot; or \
&quot;copy tags&quot; or something along those lines?<br>

</div></div>



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