Yes, sounds very useful. Waldo Bastian Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdg- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claes at work >Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:17 PM >To: xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >Subject: File origin metadata > >I stumbled upon the Shared file metadata spec >(http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dfilemetadata_2dspec) >and came to think of something that might be useful to indexers and >related program: file origins. When a file is downloaded, saved or >extracted from an archive, an extended attribute (EA) could be set to >specify the origin. For downloaded files, it could be the url where it >was downloaded from. When an attachment is saved from an email >message, it could be the Message-ID of the email message. When a file >is extracted from a tar archive, it could be the path to the original >tar file. When a file is created by any regular program, it could be >the application name of the program. A copied file could have the >source path as origin. This information could work for desktop >indexers just like hyperlinks works for Google. > >Would such a recommendation be useful? > >Claes >_______________________________________________ >xdg mailing list >xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg