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Bug 169974 - RFE: File Comments on downloads
RFE: File Comments on downloads
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 511256
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Downloads
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-11 16:00 UTC by Bruce-Robert Pocock
Modified: 2011-07-28 23:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Bruce-Robert Pocock 2005-03-11 16:00:53 UTC 
(Request For Enhancement)

In some (most?) web browsers on Classic MacOS, downloaded files were saved with
their original URL in the "Finder Info" box. This applies to all mechanisms:
"Download Link," "Save Link As," "Save Image As," "File/Save As"

Since Nautilus supports comment fields, Epiphany should set the commment to e.g.
"Downloaded from http://www.gnome.org/index.html".

For HTML files saved with a "XX Files" companion folder, the comment should
indicate something appropriate, e.g. "Files needed for index.html
(http://www.gnome.org/index.html)"
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2005-03-11 16:28:48 UTC 
Confirming. Saving the original URL as meta-data is something I've wanted for a
long time :)

Unfortunately, natuilus' meta-data is in libnautilus-private and thus
inaccessible to us; but the Roadmap @ http://live.gnome.org/RoadMap lists "
Improved metadata support for non-nautilus applications". We should track this,
or even push for this ourselves.
Comment 2 spark 2005-04-08 21:35:20 UTC 
This would be very nice!
Comment 3 Christian Persch 2007-08-27 20:42:57 UTC 
Moving Severity:enhancement bugs off of 2.20 target.
Comment 4 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2008-12-03 07:32:12 UTC 
While waiting for nautilus metadata API, how about support xattr first? gio seems to support xattr.
Comment 5 Diego Escalante Urrelo (not reading bugmail) 2011-07-28 23:06:54 UTC 
Duping with the newer one because of a simpler title

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 511256 ***