Re: GnomeVFS ioctls, live metadata and dead metadata

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

Oops - I replied just to Alex last time...

On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 11:34 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Ian McKellar wrote:
> > BeOS's ability to present the attributes of files through their file
> > manager was pretty cool. This was just for their dead metadata, but it
> > would make sense to me to do it with live metadata too. If someone
> > writes a plugin that extracts id3 information then the Nautilus list
> > view could know how to sort by artist. If someone writes a msword
> > metadata extractor then Nautilus' list view could know how to sort by
> > author. I don't think this API really belongs in a VFS layer though.
>
> It could be pretty slow to...

It shouldn't be if we use a dead metadata layer to cache it - and we 
can make that layer fast enough...

Ian