Re: CVS, GWorkspace.app and app wrappers

[Larry Cow]

Alex Perez a écrit :

> Yes, I think it would be nice if GWorkspace would test and see if the 
> filesystem supported such a feature (it would have to be at runtime, 
> though, because packagers may not have EA support enabled in their 
> filesystem while deployed workstations could.
>  
Actually, Enrico is right: you may want to "describe" a directory on 
which you have only read access, thus preventing the EAs to be written. 
So using EAs can't work for everything. But at least they might come 
handy for:

- storing MIME type on a per-file basis (an XML file should be an XML 
file for every user)
- storing file-specific metadatas. I mean metadatas that won't change 
until the file itself changes (and thus could be recalculated when 
modifying the file)
- maintaining a search index, although it's a derivate use from the 
previous item.

But many uses are impossible, for example storing the favourite 
application or setting a specific icon. That was nice in BeOS, but BeOS 
was single-user only. In a real multiuser system, one may (often) want 
to set a favourite application on a file that doesn't belong to him.

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Larry Cow