On 08 Jul 2008, at 17:43, Hamish Allan wrote:
It's worth noting that there is already something of a de facto tag
structure in SpotMeta
(http://www.fluffy.co.uk/spotmeta/spotmeta_org.html).
SpotMeta hasn't been updated for Leopard (the COM swizzling stuff has
stopped working) but it's under th
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Tom Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think that
> the way to go about this is to talk this back and forth here for a bit, then
> have someone go and write some code to implement the guidelines and turn
> them into a nice cocoa api. For instance, one thing tha
As I said, all numbers are fanciful. I just wanted to get a discussion
started.
From our point of view I would prefer a much much smaller limit.
There needs to be limits so that we can design interface around these
attributes, and it seems also for technical reasons on the size of an
attr
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Tom Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> User Entered tags:
> --
> stored: under the keyword: kXATTR_UserTags
> value: NSArray of NSStrings. No hierarchy, maximum tag length 100 chars,
> maximum number of tags 100, Guidelines: tags should b
There exists a great way for all applications to share 'Address Book'
data on OS X. The same cannot be said for user - entered meta data.
Things such as tags, urls, etc, have no conventions for
interoperability.
Right now the only 'standard' user entered meta-data is the Finder
comments a
I'm following up on my own post because I received two comments that
made me realise I should clarify why I want this discussion here on
this list.
1. "You should file a bug report with Apple."
This is the intention (and I know that at least one person has filed a
request already), but I w
On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking to start a discussion on this list that can be of
benefit to all of us and hopefully Apple will take notice and may
take our ideas to heart while they're working on 10.6.
while the discussion would be interesting, I'll note t
A lot of discussion on different application user forums seem to be
going on regarding the exchange of metadata between different
applications. Apple has provided parts of a possible solution in the
latest versions of Mac OS X but nothing that can be seen as the final
verdict.
First some
