Re: Tagging & Emblems Weekly Reports

["John Stowers" <john stowers gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Clemens Buss <cebuzz gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after meeting with my mentor Christian in Passau I had to spend a few
> days reorganizing our thoughts and ideas for the project.
> One idea we came up with and which I now pursue and already implemented
> is to store the tags(and maybe other metadata like notes etc.) for files
> in their extended attributes. This way tags are not lost when files are
> moved or copied outside nautilus or gio/gvfs. Of course XAs have to be
> activated(which is just one option for mount) for this and also
> supported by for instance coreutils, tar ... Patches for those already
> exist and I don't know why they don't find their way into the releases
> of these tools. But I guess and hope they will soon as this support is
> also needed for ACLs.
>
> This week I will work on nautilus using my functionality to store tags.
> Also, I will have a look this week on the storage of tags when XAs can't
> be used. In this case they have to be stored in a db.
>
> I am also pondering about the idea to store the tags always in a db even
> if XAs can be set so that a retrieval later on becomes much quicker. In
> this case one has to think about synchronization issues between XA<->db
> and how to handle those...

Tracker/XESAM?

John

>
>
> A lot to do and think for this week. Hope to see as many of you as
> possible at GUADEC...
>
> Best Regards
>
> Clemens
>
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