On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:57:13 +0100 Stephan Aßmus superstippi@gmx.de wrote:
It took a while before systems caught on to it, but meanwhile, they mostly all support it. The problem is they didn't support it from the beginning, like BeOS did, so it was not in peoples/developers minds, and I suppose many people would regard it as little supported as you do, one cannot follow everything... but me being a regular BeOS user (yes, still!) I know how great it really is, and although most system support it now (indeed, many for quite a long time, NTFS had it for ages), most apps still don't make use of it.
This is a cool idea, and personally a plugin that works on Linux would be great. Once something is there, maybe people will add patches to support different OS's file attribute systems. (Or maybe there's a xattr library ported to Windows, who knows). Thanks for bringing it up, I didn't know about it before.
Regards, Nick