Re: setting metadata (emblems) from console ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:51 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 27.08.2004, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 03:39, inez wrote:
> > > I'm trying to set emblems on directories from outside nautilus,too.
> > > But it seems impossible.
> > > NautilusFile is private.
> > > Anyone can help?
> > 
> > The Nautilus metadata API is not public at this time. Eventually we want
> > to make the metadata system public (probably in gnome-vfs), but we
> > haven't had time to do this yet.
> 
> If the metadata api doesnt change much, I'd like to do that. Tell me
> where to hook it in and I'll try doing it ;)
> 
> gnome_vfs_get_file_info() -> containing metadata as name->value
> hashtable ? Or something more sophisticated ? 

The problem is not to just expose the current API. We want to completely
redo it so it doesn't depend on nautilus, gets good performance, is
race-free, can be backed by EA filesystem support etc.

Basically, it requires a lot of thinking and designing.

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