Re: Extended attributes, Linux and GNOME

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

> Before that time, tho, it would be most lovely to see Nautilus support
> at least basic EA/ACL editing,
yeah.  This requires an agreement on "standard" extended attributes, so 
Nautilus can provide common-sense UIs for them, and a generic UI for 
those attributes "not covered by the standard".  Think "comments", 
"keywords" and the like.  Perhaps the file format supports these kinds 
of attributes, but EAs could be a way to support them if the file format 
didn't.

> and also make sure it cleanly handles
> copying and moving files about with losing EA info.  That's a step
> that's beneficial no matter how one looks at it.  ^,^
aha =)  We agreed to disagree, then agreed completely =).


luck,