On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:33 +0200, Olaf Frączyk wrote: > By the way, it would be nice to have Extended Attributes view, on next > tab. > > Maybe a simple three column list: > > ATTR_NAMESPACE, ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE. ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE as editable > strings? > > Or a simple one level tree: > > ATTR_NAMESPACE_1 > ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE > ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE > ATTR_NAMESPACE_2 > ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE > ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE > > The ATTR_NAMESPACE just says if it is root or user defined attribute. I > don't know if there can be more namespaces than 2, but we should > prepared for this. > > The only trouble can be, that it is perfectly possible to have binary > data inside the ATTR_VALUE. So a dialog to modify value like in Windows' > regedit could be necessary. Given that a direct view of ATTRs would likely be confusing to many users, I think this would be best implemented as a seperate extensions (Totem has done something like this for audio/video files). That said, though, this could be extremely useful for developers of ATTR-using apps, though. I'm very much in favor of using xattrs, and would like to see them used for more things.
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