On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <k...@opensource.sf-tec.de>wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 20:10:13 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > > > To move a file to another machine and have the metadata be copied and > re- > > > indexed on that new machine as well. The copy process just needs to > take > > > care of transfering the xattr. This can even work when using a USB > stick > > > or so as interim medium. > > > > I'm all for xattrs, but this thread really raises a nice question of > which > > annotations/tags/whatever should be public and which should not. > > IMHO the default should be "privacy first". Probably everyone of us has > laughed > about someone who accidentially published either metadata or deleted text > (remember MS Word document history or something)? I'm absolutely fine if > you > want this that you do this. But most people will not be aware of it, even > less > of the implications. So it should be deactivated by default and only > activated > explicitely. > > Eike What about something like what Dolphin has now, where when you drop a file on a removable filesystem or remote drive it pops up the current copy/move/link option, but also has a checkbox (disabled by default buy configurable) to "copy metadata" or "copy tags" or something along those lines?