On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:11:55PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Who can attach notes and info to a file. I as a user want a different icon
> to someone else. Perhaps I want my note in English and you want the notes
> in Portugese ?
>
> Multi-part files are a bad hack - they are hard to extend the format on, they
> dont identify the metadata catalog and how to parse it. You'd be far better
> generating a single stream , even in something trendy like XML. At least
> then I can always parse the data, I can extend it and I can merge it with
> a personal database of overrides
Why, Alan, that's why we need the union filesystem with these forked files.
Just overlay my home directory on /, and I can replace any icons,
annotations, whatever, as I see fit.
bringing another bad idea to the mix,
Jeff
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