Re: POSIX ACL Support in Nautilus

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 10:33 +0200, Olaf Frączyk wrote:

> By the way, it would be nice to have Extended Attributes view, on next
> tab.
> 
> Maybe a simple three column list:
> 
> ATTR_NAMESPACE, ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE. ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE as editable
> strings?
> 
> Or a simple one level tree:
> 
> ATTR_NAMESPACE_1
> 	ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE
> 	ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE
> ATTR_NAMESPACE_2
> 	ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE
> 	ATTR_NAME, ATTR_VALUE
> 
> The ATTR_NAMESPACE just says if it is root or user defined attribute. I
> don't know if there can be more namespaces than 2, but we should
> prepared for this.
> 
> The only trouble can be, that it is perfectly possible to have binary
> data inside the ATTR_VALUE. So a dialog to modify value like in Windows'
> regedit could be necessary.

Given that a direct view of ATTRs would likely be confusing to many
users, I think this would be best implemented as a seperate extensions
(Totem has done something like this for audio/video files).

That said, though, this could be extremely useful for developers of
ATTR-using apps, though. I'm very much in favor of using xattrs, and
would like to see them used for more things.