[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #10071: No attributes of MIME "application/*" in Tracker's "Attributes" menu
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:56:08 -0000
#10071: No attributes of MIME "application/*" in Tracker's "Attributes" menu
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Reporter: Giova84 | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: | Version: R1/Development
Kits/Storage Kit | Keywords: People files lacks attributes view
Resolution: | in Tracker
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: x86
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Comment (by bonefish):
Replying to [comment:15 axeld]:
> What to do if there are two special markers? Newer one wins?
Sure. I don't think this will really happen in practice, though. The only
cases I can think of are when one package provides a directory structure
with extra attributes on some directories and other packages provide
additional entries within the structure.
> Anyway, I would prefer 2a), but that's not surprising, isn't it? :-)
Yeah, it would be natural to merge all aspects of directories, i.e. not
only entries, but also attributes. It's just relatively expensive to do
that. I don't think it is reasonable to do the attribute merging live --
for some directories many or even all packages will take part, and the
management of indices needs to be taken into account as well -- so that
needs to happen at package activation time and an additional layer of
objects is needed for the (directory) attributes.
Since I can't think of any situation where we actually need the attribute
merging, I don't think it's worth the overhead.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10071#comment:16>
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