2007/2/1, John Stowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Another thing you don't seem to have covered. How would an application > determine what files have emblem X? Or how do an app set emblem X on a file > (or generally an uri)? > > This doesn't strictly have to be part of the proposal though... > Yeah I have intentionally left that out - in this case. I tried to elaborate a bit in the section on "Relationship to tags" to clarify this spec only covers the definition of emblems. While that might make this spec a bit simple I see it as a necessary first step. To be honest I was going to see how Wasapi pans out and then start to think about a common DBus API for associating metadata with files at a later date. Such an api could be AttachKeyword(keyword, uri) AttachEmblem(emblem, uri) etc I do believe that this spec would form a necessary basis for such an API (in the emblem case), or could at least be absorbed by that spec at a subsequent date
Yes, this could very well fall under the Wasabi umbrella, but as you say, let's let that rest for now. I think that standardising on the emblems first, and then an API for
associating them with files is about as far as you can go for standardising tags/keywords/emblems and stuff. I believe it would be prohibitively restrictive, performance wise, to require indexers also keep a (hypothetical) xml file describing the association of all emblems to files, in addition to their own internal representations of such relationships [1]
You are right. An api like you suggest does not enforce a policy on how to actually store the emblem information so any platform could do what it found was the right thing. [1] Perhaps the answer here is standardising on something like XMP sidecar
files and having indexers periodically write these out to disk. In that case they would no doubt need to refer back to an emblem which may have been applied to the associated file.
As I understand it indexers (atleast Beagle and Tracker) have problems "regarding two files as one", meaning that they will probably be able to write the sidecar, but not index it so that the metadata is stored for the original file. Anyway, let's postpone the api discussions until the fileformat is set in stone, and Wasabi is firing up on the metadata spec. Cheers, Mikkel
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