[Gllug] Virtual files (was: Smart directories: Cron or fancier)

[Richard Turner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Russell Howe
> Sent: 27 September 2004 11.36 am
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Smart directories: Cron or fancier
> 
> You could go totally nuts and use DMAPI or something which 
> would let you
> do really crazy stuff (stuff like providing virtual files, which are
> generated on the fly - drop foo.jpg into a directory, and suddenly
> foo.png appears alongside it, except the PNG is generated only when
> accessed). I've also been told that DMAPI is ugly and evil though, and
> it only works on XFS.

Doesn't KDE's file manager do something clever like this with music
files?  Stick a music CD in the drive and KDE will provide a load of
'directories' containing OGG files and WAV files, etc. all named using
CDDB, that are ripped from the CD when one accesses them.

I know that's the file manager, not some clever trick on the file
system, but I was impressed when I found that.  Perhaps I dreamt it
though - I don't use KDE but I thought I came across that last time I
had a quick foray into the KDE world.

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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