• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that’s something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.

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      1 year ago

      You’d want that, but a lot of programs do that, both in Windows and Linux.

      e.g. The .directory files with the [Desktop Entry] spec by freedesktop.org
      Dolphin has the option to enable/disable the feature

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        1 year ago

        FWIW Dolphin only does it if the filesystem doesn’t provide a way to add that metadata directly to the directory and you change the view configuration for that directory away from your standard configuration. Which is how the standard describes to do it. (Some file managers incorrectly add those .directory files to every directory you visit.)

        A mac will add a .DS_Store file to any directory just by breathing on it.