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Re: [opensuse] Gimmie my old menus back!
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:31:44 -0900
- Message-id: <200611281931.51544.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 03:15, James Knott wrote:
> There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system. The
> extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about
> each item. It included things like history, key words, comments etc.,
> all searchable
Extended atts are available in lots of file systems.
Even newer suse releases use user_xattr in mount points
(although I'm not sure what it buys us at this stage).
Its just that nobody has come up with a good cross platform
way to do it and there are few real world uses for it that are compelling
enough for it to be used widely.
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John Andersen
> There's much more to the OS/2 desktop than the menuing system. The
> extended attributes supported a huge amount (64K bytes) of data about
> each item. It included things like history, key words, comments etc.,
> all searchable
Extended atts are available in lots of file systems.
Even newer suse releases use user_xattr in mount points
(although I'm not sure what it buys us at this stage).
Its just that nobody has come up with a good cross platform
way to do it and there are few real world uses for it that are compelling
enough for it to be used widely.
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_____________________________________
John Andersen
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