<!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:89b6ba3a0808211028m4aa641dw407ec10a802ed868@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Adrien BUSTANY <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:madcat@mymadcat.com"><madcat@mymadcat.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Clearly we need a lib to abstract that. We also need to make that lib totally desktop independant... And also I'd really be happy if we reach a point where the solution we choose can be defined as a standard (that was my initial point). I guess that implies that there should be more than two people participating in this discussion :-) Maybe a blog article would be a good way to get people into the discussion, but I don't have a blog :-s </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I think it would be enough to make gio/gvfs/kio preserve the attributes (all attributes, not only the folder related ones) when copying/moving files and directories (and to create fallback files when the need arises). High level apps can then just use the gio/kio calls to manage the attributes and the storage mechanism is abstracted away. That should be standardized and agreed upon first. </pre> </blockquote> I agree on that. We definitely need to start a real discussion about that. I'll be in touch with the KDE developers to see what they think about that issue.<br> <blockquote cite="mid:89b6ba3a0808211028m4aa641dw407ec10a802ed868@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Only then we can start thinking about higher level standards like folder view-specific attributes or MIME-type storage. Of course apps not using the vfs apis will likely break the attributes but they fall out of scope of the specification (and they also break stuff on OSX). </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>