Per-file metadata should strictly contain information pertinent to that file
alone, such as type, encoding, (maybe) icon, etc. Things like position on the
desktop, what app to open it with, etc, are *user* properties - they are
different per user.
The question then becomes whether to also have per-file preference attributes
in every file a user touches, or to have some kind of database per user with
all their file preferences in it (with all the associated difficulties of
keeping it in sync, identifying files, etc, etc).
Are there any multiuser systems which address the problems of per-user
preference info stored in file attributes?
J
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