Re: [Tracker] From the client side

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 17:36 +0100, Marko Anastasov wrote:

> > Have you seen: http://live.gnome.org/MetadataOnRemovableDevices ?
>
> No, I've read it now. It doesn't seem like the solution to the problem that
> I mention because it assumes the presence of removable media which acts
> as a carrier of metadata. If I tag a photo and the tags go in Tracker's db,
> then copy it to my friend's computer and remove the USB flash immediately
> (there's a possibility of using a read-only CD or DVD, but USBs are used much
> more frequently these days), then she won't see those tags... *unless* the
> daemon recognises metadata.ttl and copies the information into her desktop's
> metadata store - is this the plan?

yes


> On the other hand, if an application or Tracker itself wrote the tags
> to the file
> as XMP defines it, then there wouldn't be such a problem, if the application
> and/or Tracker decide that they should read these fields that is.

The Turtle file is not mutually exclusive wrt XMP data. Writing XMP data
is still possible. 


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