Re: Nautilus, metadata and extendet attributes

[Adam Sampson <azz us-lot org>]

"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.

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Adam Sampson <azz us-lot org>                        <http://offog.org/>