[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #10071: No attributes of MIME "application/*" in Tracker's "Attributes" menu
- From: "bonefish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 19:12:05 -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):
We do already add an application super type to the system package. The
problem is that other packages that include an application MIME sub type
may will include the directory as well and will shadow the system package
one, if theirs is newer.
Not sure what the best solution is. I see two possible approaches: 1.
Change how the super types are stored in the MIME DB, i.e. use a separate
file (e.g. ".super") instead of attaching the attributes to the directory
itself. 2. Solve the directory shadowing issue at the packagefs level.
For the latter there are different options: a) For a directory the
attributes of all the merged directories from the respective packages
could be merged, similar to how the contents of the directories are
merged. b) Instead of choosing the newest directory as a representative
for the merged directory node, we could choose the one with the most
attributes. c) We could introduce a special marker attribute to override
the time criterion and tag the super type directories in the system
package accordingly.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10071#comment:9>
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