Re: GnomeVFS ioctls, live metadata and dead metadata

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:28 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:23, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > > I don't think it is cool. Nobody has yet been able to say why a 
> > > generic
> > > API with add-hoc names and add-hoc parsing of metadata values are 
> > > better
> > > than libraries for specific uses.
> >
> > What I've always pictured was useful data to show in a generic preview
> > pane, and file searching/filtering integrated with "content" metadata,
> > all cached and indexed.  Things like saved searches or rhythmbox being
> > able to ask vfs for all files "by this artist, on this album, locally 
> > or
> > on the network, with these mime-types".
>
> 	Good grief; you want to build a database into gnome-vfs as well now ?!

Eh? Well, if gnome-vfs is going to store dead metadata it'll need some 
kind of database...

Ian