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From: | Larry Cow |
Subject: | Re: CVS, GWorkspace.app and app wrappers |
Date: | Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:13:25 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
Alex Perez a écrit :
Yes, I think it would be nice if GWorkspace would test and see if the filesystem supported such a feature (it would have to be at runtime, though, because packagers may not have EA support enabled in their filesystem while deployed workstations could.Actually, Enrico is right: you may want to "describe" a directory on which you have only read access, thus preventing the EAs to be written. So using EAs can't work for everything. But at least they might come handy for:
- storing MIME type on a per-file basis (an XML file should be an XML file for every user) - storing file-specific metadatas. I mean metadatas that won't change until the file itself changes (and thus could be recalculated when modifying the file) - maintaining a search index, although it's a derivate use from the previous item.
But many uses are impossible, for example storing the favourite application or setting a specific icon. That was nice in BeOS, but BeOS was single-user only. In a real multiuser system, one may (often) want to set a favourite application on a file that doesn't belong to him.
-- Larry Cow
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