>Tedd (following Ken) reports:
>
>  > True labels are gone [in OSX], but they have been
>  > replaced by comments.
>
>Does that mechanism color icons at low cost?  Is it
>programmable?  Is there some reason why the 8 tints cannot be
>restored with the next Finder? Is the FInfo data structure
>still there?

Hell if I know -- I have problems finding my glasses. I just said the 
labels were replaced by comments -- which can be displayed in a list. 
And, if you can display the comments in a list, then most likely youi 
can access them somehow in FB -- but, I'm not that smart to figure 
out how.

>In "drag-and-drop" processing it is nice to be able to color
>code the processed files to indicate (roughly) the result of
>the processing.

Interesting application of the tint method. It would be interesting 
if files could have the same name, but be of a different "tint" and 
still exist concurrently on the same desktop (or whatever).

However, if comments can be displayed in a list, as they can now, 
then you should be able to keep track of "the result of processing" 
in similar fashion as you did with tints, no?  <-- my gnome-like 
answer. :-)

>Here in France the mechanism is called "Famille"; in USA it
>*aught* to be called "marker tint".  The names attached to
>the colors are pretty vapid -- as they must be since the colors
>can be edited. (And yes I wish I could edit them from within
>FB^3!)
>
>Cheers
>
>Laurent

Well... if we had a "marker tint" I guess we would have a name for it. :-)

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