ds-store

Has any program used .DS_Store (or the like) for something useful?

There is a lot of talk about how to exclude, ignore, or delete .DS_Store files on macs. It seems these small files contain data about folders that is used by Finder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store https://wiki.mozilla.org/DS_Store_File_Format Has this information ever been put to use by a third party program? ...