Common spec/interface for file metadata

[Waldo Bastian]

On Saturday 03 September 2005 12:32, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whilst discussing metadata needs for Nautilus, there might be a good
> case for having a shared metadata interface as there are already a
> number of metadata frameworks being developed like KDE4's tenor and the
> Beagle project (as well as my own which I am developing).
>
> Filemanagers will need to be able to get access to both automatically
> derived metadata on files as well as user defined ones and it makes
> sense to use an existing framework if one is already being used for
> searching/indexing.
>
> To facilitate this, I would like to propose a simple dbus interface
> (org/freedesktop/metadata) to allow cross desktop applications to tap
> into this wealth of information.
>
> Methods :
>
> GetFileMetaData
> 	input DBUS_TYPE_STRING s (the file uri)
> 	output DBUS_TYPE_DICT  a{ss} (the metadata)
>
> SetFileMetaData
>    	input DBUS_TYPE_STRING s (the file uri)
> 	input DBUS_TYPE_DICT  a{ss} (the file metadata)
>
>
> The above should be self-explanatory. 

Would there be a single service providing this interface, or would this be an 
interface that (multiple) applications would provide?

Cheers,
Waldo
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