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

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 13:37, Brad Hards wrote:
>
> > This is why, ultimately, no metadata system without kernel support can
> > ever be complete.
>
> This is a big ask too. Remember that KDE runs on more than just Linux.
> Consider Solaris and Tru64, plus the BSDs.
>
I would you wish you would stop talking about kernels, what you really mean is 
without filesystem support. It is important to remember kernels are not the 
only ones to supply filesystems.  e.g. KIO is filesystem! 
So is MIME for emails or the tar-format for tar-balls.

What we need is a filesystem, and one that might be placed on top of several 
different lower level filesystems.

If you have ever been learned anything about protocol-stacks you should know 
what I am talking about. This is application or representation-layer stuff, 
it does not need, and therefore _should_ not interfere with lower levels and 
certainly not the 10+ different kernels KDE is available on.