elementary / elementary/files

[feature-request] Add ability to show and edit POSIX ACLs & extended user attributes

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Description

Many people using Elementary is working with ACL & user_xattr on daily basis.
Currently they should use `getfacl`/`setfacl` in terminal or GUI tool named `Eiciel`, which interrupts their session in `Files` making user experience quite fragmented.

IMO, it would be useful to provide some additional controls for the `Permissions` tab to manage ACLs & user_xattr's.
Perhaps not every Elementary OS user needs to manage ACLs & user_xattr's, so this controls could be somehow made configurable to show/hide.
For design example there are already named `Eiciel`: [https://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/screenshots/](https://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/screenshots/).

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