Re: [PLUG] .directory files

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:

> On Thursday 26 September 2002 07:34 pm, Will Dyson wrote:
> > BeOS certainly did. It's gui used arbitrary user-settable attributes on
> > files and directories to full effect.
>
> But did BeOS store stuff like icon position and state in the metadata too?
> I did not think they did, but for the life of me i never remember seeing 
> hidden files either....  or did tracker keep tabs on icons locations for the 
> user?

Yeah, the tracker did that. However, a look at the list of attributes for 
a file wouldn't make this terribly obvious, since the tracker encoded the 
position in a string attribute named 'tracker_<foo>' (where foo is 
something I can't remember). If I'd designed it, I'd have made it use 
integer attrs 'icon_x' and 'icon_y'...

Although a file's icon was normally determined by it's mimetype attribute 
(there was a system database mapping mimetypes to default icons and other 
default info), you could also set a file's icon individually and that icon 
would be stored as an attribute as well.

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman

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