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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-01-31 11:20:16
Message-ID: 200401311220.16890.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Friday 30 January 2004 20:11, kde-devel-request@mail.kde.org wrote:
> El jue, 29-01-2004 a las 19:19, Adam Sampson escribió:
> > > 2) File managers start tagging files with the file type they determine
> > > for each file on the first visit to its directory.
> >
> > Absolutely not. It's never acceptable for a file manager to modify a
> > directory unless you explicitly tell it to; this is why modern
> > applications store image thumbnails in the user's home directory
> > rather than in the directory of the image.
>
> Hmmmm... I don't see what's the problem of modifying file metadata
> *on files the user owns*.  That'd make metadata system-wide accessible.
> Remember this doesn't modify the *directory*, but the files' metadata.

Mac OSX has "resource forks" for every file, where meta data is saved. This is 
done by the OS. Unfortunately it is lost when using the unix commands like 
cp, mv and so on.

Bye
Alex
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