Am Samstag, den 29.04.2006, 23:33 +0200 schrieb Patrick Jacquot: > On 17 oct. 2001, Christian Glodt had an idea whose implementation could > have helped me a lot : > > >From: Christian Glodt <christian glodt ist lu> > * To: Nautilus List <nautilus-list lists eazel com> > * Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] monitoring the metafiles.. > * Date: 17 Oct 2001 20:14:29 +0200 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > >Hi, > > >> It just occurred to me that another possibility would be talking to the > >> Nautilus metadata server using CORBA. Just before we released Nautilus 1.0, > >> we changed things so that all metadata I/O is done by a server (which is > >> currently in the Nautilus executable) so that metadata changes by > >> components > >> would not trample over changes being made in Nautilus and vice versa. > > >maybe just write a command-line client program for this metadata server > >and distribute it with nautilus. Scripts would use the client program to > >change/query the metadata: > > >$ nautilus-meta-client somefile --set-emblem=Important > >$ nautilus-meta-client somefile --set-icon=icon.svg > > >This could even be extended to allow further remote-controlling of > >nautilus: > > >$ nautilus-meta-client somefile --move-to-trash > > >and > > >$ nautilus-meta-client somefile --view #use default viewer > >$ nautilus-meta-client somefile --view-with=eog-component > > >I think anyone can imagine the possibilities that such a tool would make > >available. > > >Christian Glodt > > Any news about that?
I'd rather like to have a metadata server that is not included in Nautilus but provides a desktop-neutral framework. As soon as D-Bus is stable (1.0), we may want to use Tracker [1] for storing this metadata, which would have its own client and (hopefully) synchronize the Nautilus metadata database by writing back changes. Interweaving a file manager and metadata storage isn't really satisfying, but feel free to provide a metadata client for the metadata server shipped with Nautilus in the meantime :). [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
