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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

On 15-Sep-98 Olaf Titz wrote:
>> Or do we want somehting like OS/2 EAs
>> which are specifically metadata for use by the shell/file manager?
>
> I think this is more what's needed. E.g. we have enough graphical file
> managers on Un*x but they are all unusable because of the simple fact
> that you can't move the icons around in a window and they stay where
> you put them (although this is arguably stuff for a dot-file in the
> respective directory). Think about file comments, etc.

Per-file metadata should strictly contain information pertinent to that file
alone, such as type, encoding, (maybe) icon, etc. Things like position on the
desktop, what app to open it with, etc, are *user* properties - they are
different per user.

The question then becomes whether to also have per-file preference attributes
in every file a user touches, or to have some kind of database per user with
all their file preferences in it (with all the associated difficulties of
keeping it in sync, identifying files, etc, etc).

Are there any multiuser systems which address the problems of per-user
preference info stored in file attributes?

J

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