Re: Moving away from app-centric mimetypes (e.g. kword)

> Am Dienstag 14 Mai 2002 15:37 schrieb John Summerfield:
> > Move the disk to another computer, all that information goes with it.
> 
> Okay, but: Sending the file via email, and the information is lost, isn't it?

So? Of course it's lost if you don't send the metadata. But, you pack it up with 
GNU tar on OS/2 and sent that, and the metadata goes too.


> 
> EAs are really fine, but the management of access rights is a problem, too; 
> especially when you think of shared files. And I am not shure in how far they

How so? Shouldn't EAs have the same access rights as the file?

>  
> are implemented in the kernel and what about poratbility.

I think some Linux filesystems do implement EAs now. Certainly there's been work 
on it.

> 
> However, I am against an implementation in KDE since this is definitly stuff 
> that should be done on the OS level.

On that we agree.


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