Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes
- From: Adam Sampson <azz us-lot org>
- To: "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>
- Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>, desktop-devel-list gnome org, nautilus-list gnome org, kde-devel kde org
- Subject: Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 00:19:21 +0000
"Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec> writes:
> 1) Applications start tagging files each with an EA entry (tentatively
> named mimetype) that contains the MIME type of the file
Yes. This is very much worthwhile, and it'd be great to have a
freedesktop standard and a utility function in the base libraries for
this.
> 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.
--
Adam Sampson <azz us-lot org> <http://offog.org/>
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