<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Patryk Zawadzki a écrit : <blockquote cite="mid:89b6ba3a0808201605i36665d82xaa3a7db7d7ece4b3@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Adrien BUSTANY <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:madcat@mymadcat.com"><madcat@mymadcat.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, this is my first post to the list, so hello everyone ! I've been lately developping an extension for a file manager which uses emblems on folders to mark their relation with a project. I searched for a standard for per directory settings but didn't find one. My problem is with emblems, but the same goes for custom icons, custom sorting, or even localized names etc. I think the freedesktop world could really benefit from a standard addressing this concern, if it's well thought of course :-) This mail is hence a call for brainstorming, here are a few starting points : - For each folder that has custom settings, store a hidden file with the settings inside. That's what Dolphin, and the Finder on Mac OS X does. - Store all the custom settings in a centralized file, most likely in the home user directory (possibly in .config). I guess that what Nautilus does for emblems, although that needs confirmation. What do you guys think about that ? Do you have a better answer ? Am I posting to the right list ? :-) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Store it in extended attributes and fall back to hidden file when moving to media that does not support them (archive, teh internets, fat) and reinstantiate the attributes when moving back (I believe that's what OSX does in most of the cases and as a bonus it saves you a bunch of stats). </pre> </blockquote> I like the extended attributes too, they're clearly the cleanest way to store that information. In the case where extended attributes are not available, we cannot always use a hidden file in the folder, I'm thinking for example of a read only volume. In that case I think Dolphin fall backs to a central setting file, though I don't know the details. Cheers Adrien </body> </html>