That depends on the purpose of your idea. But I happen to know that
both the KDE and GNOME people are working on similar projects. Check
with them to see what they are doing.
"MURRAY, Paul" wrote:
>
> 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?
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