On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 6:38:56 AM UTC-7, Rob McBroom wrote: > > > I was thinking that it would be handy to have for a custom > > receipt/expense > > report tracking system that I've got. Right now, I encode a bunch of > > meta > > data into the filename (date, purpose, customers, etc), but that gets > > unwieldy. Xattrs would be a deterministic way that doesn't involve a > > lot > > of parsing. > > > > Thoughts? > > That looks like the skeleton of a new “element” for the thing Alcor > was working on to replace Quicksilver. I can’t see any actual > functionality in there. > > I assume tagging is mainly what you’re after. I’d recommend taking a > look at the File Attribute plug-in. It allows tagging (using the actual > OS-supported tags which are Xattr-based) among other things. > > It also allows you to add things to the catalog based on the presence of > one or more tags. >
I have the File Attribute installed (and use it all of the time), but tags are generally only binary (is it present or not?), whereas Xattr can have key/value pairs, so they're a bit more versatile for capturing things like Categories, etc. Maybe that'll be the QS plugin that I ultimately try to build as a learning project... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
