[ge-talk] annotations

[Paul van Nugteren]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:08:35 +0100, "Ronald Vos" <egregius at gmail.com>
said:
> On 1/19/07, Ari Haviv <arielbhaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ah a whiteboard and i guess the annotations go there. My idea is the
> > annotations are attached to the file and anyone could make their own
> > whiteboard to manage everything...wonder if attributes could do this.
> >
> 
> I was just thinking about suggesting attributes; you can store a lot of
> information in those, right? (Actually, I'm curious to the actual
> limitations)
> 
> But how do you envision this? It would seem to me that each program would
> need to be made 'aware' of these special attributes. The only way to
> introduce these would be 'setting the standard'.

Indeed, special problems are moving such files to different filesystems,
how'd you cope with that, zipping like filename.attributes.zip them?



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