[dolphin] [Bug 473808] XDG Extended Attribute spec support

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473808

--- Comment #1 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to AvidSeeker from comment #0)
> ... Many programs attach this metadata to downloaded or produced files ...
If you have any examples of code that does this (as extended attributes), it
would be nice to try.

You can see what metadata is extracted and indexed (by baloo) if you do a
    balooshow -x oneofyourfiles.odf
(or .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .jpg etc). This is generally embedded metadata though and
it will also appear in Dolphin's F11 information panel.

You can search for such "embedded" metadata, for example by:
    baloosearch author:Carroll

Baloo and Dolphin handle a subset of extended attributes: user.xdg.tags,
user.xdg.comment and user.baloo.rating and you can search for these by:
    baloosearch tag:Wonderland

It pays to be careful (and do regular backups of your xattr data with
getfattr), it's rather too easy to do something to a file and it's read and
written back without the xattr. Rotate an image with Gwenview, you'll lose any
tags and ratings you might have attached: Bug 431146

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