On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:12:46 +0000, Peter Foldiak said:

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> You say "author" should be an attribute but "icon.png" is not an 
> attribute. I am not convinced they should be treated differently.  The
> listing doesn't look ugly to me at all (just because it is long).

IMHO, putting attributes in foo/ instead of foo/@/ increases the risk of
collisions.  e.g. let's say I have a directory that contains a file
named icon.png, but I want my file manager to display its icon as some
other file.  If all the attributes are in foo/, then the file manager
will read foo/icon.png as the directory's icon, which is not what I
want.  It would be better if I could have a directory that contains
icon.png, and uses foo/@/icon.png as its icon in the file manager.

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