Re: Extended file attributes

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno ven, 27-05-2005 alle 11:33 +0200, Alexander Larsson ha
scritto:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 20:36 +0200, Boris de Laage wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've made a nautilus property page to display a file's extended
> > attributes. It's really basic...
> > It's read only for now. In the future it will be possible to add/modify
> > attributes, and maybe provide a set of standard attributes (author, ...)
> > for use with beagle. Maybe those features are already planned for a
> > future nautilus version ?
> > All comments welcome.
> > 
> > http://emak.free.fr/nautilus-xattr-properties-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> Thats a pretty cool extension, and i think some people will have a use
> for it. However, for the default Nautilus UI I don't want to expose the
> raw xattrs like that. I want to wait until there is a clear idea of
> how/if/when we want to use xattrs in the desktop. Its not until then we
> can make good decisions on the ui for viewing it.

Take a look at John Siracusa's review of OSX 10.4 here[1].

BTW there are pages about ACL[2] and the new file types framework[3]
used by Apple.



[1] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/7
[2] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/8
[2] http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/11