Jon Phillips wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 11:01 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >> Jon Phillips wrote: >> >>>>> Any thoughts, or am I better off waiting for beagle to update it's filter >>>>> code? >>>> it would require significant changes to support that so its unlikely in >>>> the short term. >>> Yes, this would be a major feature that myself and Creative Commons >>> would be very supportive of...we are promoting the use of XMP for >>> embedded and companion file metadata. It would be excellent to be able >>> to both import, export and have this sidecar concept for this type of >>> project so moving data around is not a lossy endeavour from filesystem >>> to filesystem. >>> >> we will support it at some point. FWIW we need a way to back up and make >> mobile our user defined metadata in our database anyhow so sidecar may >> well be a format we use for this. > > Great...is there a wiki and/or place where this can be fleshed out...I > really want to make the push for using XMP for this. >
freedesktop would be the best place http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards (anybody can edit anything on freedesktop but you must create a login account first) If you are serious about world domination for XMP, I would also suggest emailing Alexander Larsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] who is currently implementing the new vfs for gnome, gtk and glib and try and persuade him to support XMP there (be warned you will need to make a very good case!) With VFS support, copying files in a file manager or save as dialog could automatically copy over the corresponding hidden xmp file as well as exposing am api for other apps to add metadata to it. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
