Re: [Tracker] Tags in Tracker

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 25/11/11 14:02, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:01 +0200, Ivan Frade wrote:
> > Hi Benjamin,
> >   By default tags are only in Tracker. If you explicitly enable the
> > writeback option on compilation time, then they will be written into
> > the files but ONLY for images and ONLY in certain formats. If i recall
> > correctly: JPEG, PNG and TIFF.
>
> Hmm.  There isn't a way to store them on the file as filesystem xattr's?

From what I recall, that's file system specific and exactly why we 
don't do that from tracker -> disk right now.

> I was looking for that just the other day.

You could possibly write a tracker-writeback module to do this and allow 
writeback for tags. Perhaps Philip/Carlos can comment further on this 
since they wrote most of that daemon.

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Regards,
Martyn

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