Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 22:06:45 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: > Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and > > > re- > > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to take > > > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB stick > > > or so as interim medium. > > > > I'm all for xattrs, but this thread really raises a nice question of which > > annotations/tags/whatever should be public and which should not. > > IMHO the default should be "privacy first". Probably everyone of us has > laughed about someone who accidentially published either metadata or > deleted text (remember MS Word document history or something)? I'm > absolutely fine if you want this that you do this. But most people will not > be aware of it, even less of the implications. So it should be deactivated > by default and only activated explicitely.
Hmmm, right, didn´t actually think of the privacy implications. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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