Just ideas for more elegant implementations of dbus and akonadi/nepomuk using Hurd interfaces tagging: settrans ~/ /hurd/nsmux ls ~/file,,metadata store in ~/.metadata network store: search for .metadata All metadata: settrans meta /hurd/metadata --show-store dbus: settrans -a /dbus /hurd/dbus Programs just add an active translator in /dbus: /dbus/org.… → receives dbus calls in-process.