On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 22:27 +1200, Richard Schwarting wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I feel like I'm missing something obvious here. I've an application
> that uploads photos and I have been trying to get it to add an emblem
> to files it has uploaded so I know they're done. I've tried doing
> something like this (not sure if this is remotely right, the docs for
> GEmblem and friends aren't the most thorough):
>
> GFileIcon *emblem_icon = g_file_icon_new (...);
> GEmblem *emblem = g_emblem_new (emblem_icon);
>
> /* I have a GFileInfo* image_info from earlier */
> GIcon *old_icon = g_file_info_get_icon (image_info);
> GIcon *new_icon = g_emblemed_icon_new (image_info, emblem);
> g_file_set_icon (new_icon);
>
> Sadly, this has no impact on the .nautilus/metadata/ files for the
> relevant locations and no emblems appear as intended. I noticed that
> NautilusFileInfo also has an emblem add API, but thought that GEmblem
> might be more appropriate since it's all Flashy and stuff.
>
> I hope this is the right list, even though it concerns gio APIs, since
> it concerns emblems, but I'll happily be redirected if I'm wrong :)
Just looking at the commits Alex did, this worked for me
$ touch Desktop/foo.txt
$ gvfs-set-attribute ~/Desktop/foo.txt -t stringv \
metadata::keyword new urgent
and hitting ctrl+r in Nautilus makes this stuff appear (this is probably
supposed to be happening automatically).
$ gvfs-info ~/Desktop/foo.txt |grep metadata
metadata::icon_position: 64,422
metadata::icon_scale: 1
metadata::icon_position_timestamp: 1248385424
metadata::keyword: [new, urgent]
My installed copy of Nautilus may be out of date since
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus/tree/libnautilus-private/nautilus-metadata.h
suggests the metadata key is 'emblems', not 'keyword'.
Anyway, you can do this programatically via g_file_info_set_attribute()
using G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRINGV for @type and "metadata::keyword"
for @attribute (see programs/gvfs-set-attribute.c in the gvfs sources
for details).
(Hmm, it would probably be nice with a g_file_info_set_attribute_strv()
convenience function. And also nice to have #defines for things like
"metadata::keyword" or whatever it ends up being called.)
Hope this helps.
David
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