Is the file manager part of Konqueror have plans to incorporate support for such file attributes?
Dirk Mueller: I’m not the right person to answer this, though I’m pretty sure we will add support for those extended metadata in time. Unfortunately such things are rather linux-centric and not very portable. Waldo Bastian: I don’t think that “support” will be a problem, the interesting question is whether we will be able to make use of it in a meaningfull way. So let me answer that: The lack of support for generic meta-data in the filesystem is a major drawback at the moment for a desktop environment like KDE. Unfortunately, even with JFS and XFS available, we will still not be able to rely on the availability of it since there are so many filesystems still in use that do not support it. So from a practical point of view little will change since we will still need to come up with a backup-solution in case the filesystem doesn’t support it. I would like to see that happen, but there are no plans for it as of yet.
