Re: Questions about the spatial interface proposal

[Shaun McCance <shaunm wolfram com>]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:45, Dave Camp wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:42, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> > (iv) Can removable media store the positions of the files in their
> > folders?
> > This is so that if you insert different Zip disks (or whatever) that
> > contain files with duplicate names, each has its own layout of files
> > that be individually tailored. 
> 
> It is based on uri, so different files in the same disk will have the
> same metadata.  That kinda sucks.

Would it be possible to change this by using a query string on the URL
used to store and retrieve the metadata.  That is, if I'm viewing the
URL file:///mnt/cdrom, Nautilus currently looks for the metadata in the
file urlencode(file:///mnt/cdrom).  Perhaps for removable media Nautilus
could store and retrieve the metadata in the file

urlencode(file:///mnt/cdrom/?volume=CIV3)

Of course, this would just be internal bookkeeping.  This way, you're
not really mucking around with the URL itself, you're just appending
some qualifying information to the filename used to do metadata.

--
Shaun