I'd like to be able to attach descriptions to files.
Short of altering the file system <g>, possibly the easiest way to do this
would be that a directory may contain a file named .description, and if it
does then the convention would be that it would contain a list of
filename description
lines.
We would need a new "describe filename description" command, to apply/remove
descriptions. The file management commands (rm, mv, cp, ln) would need to be
modified to manage the .description file, and of course the ls command would
have a new option to show the descriptions.
This would mean that information such as:
/bin ==> holds binaries of small system utilities
/boot ==> holds kernel images to boot the system
/dev ==> shows the devices linux makes available
could be put in the directories themselves.
Now then. This may or may not be a bad idea. But who do I suggest it to?
