Bug 189560

Summary: No UI to view/edit arbitrary extended attributes.
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: Boyd.Stephen.Smith.Jr
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 2009-04-13 20:29:09 UTC 
Version:           1.2.1 (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Linux supports arbitrary extended attributes.  "Simple" name/value pairs that are associated with a file or directory.  It would be nice to have these extended attributes exposed via some UI in Dolphin and DolphinPart.

The "POSIX" ACL support is only part of the extended attributes mechanism, certain names under the "system" namespace are enforced by system calls.  However, the "user" namespace could be quite useful in general and the "security" and "trusted" namespaces might be interesting for specialized uses.
Comment 1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 2009-04-13 20:57:22 UTC 
Debian Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469779  (originally reported against 3.5.8, but I am confirming on oS 11.1 + KDE 4.2.2 packages from the OBS).
Comment 2 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:22:30 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 3 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:18:19 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.
Comment 4 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. 2021-03-09 02:47:53 UTC 
Confirming on Dolphin Version 20.12.2 with KDE Frameworks 5.78.0, 
Qt 5.15.2 (built against 5.15.2), and The xcb windowing system.