Re: [rox-devel] Selected-Icons patch (was Re: DIR-Icons)

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:30:07PM -0700, @Home wrote:

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> I personally find the nautilus way of doing this better. Nautilus puts a
> broken pencil and other emblems in the top right corner to show that the
> file is write protected.
> 
> I think changing icon colors for write protected files would make some
> icons look ugly.

While read permission is useful, since you often don't know which
directories you can look inside or which files you can load, I'm not sure
there's much point indicating which files have write permission.

Normally, the rule is simple - if I own the file then I can write to it,
otherwise I can't. Littering the display with pencils which 99% of the
time won't give any information just doesn't seem useful.

Also, there's a big source of confusion here:

I can have a non-writeable file is a directory, and still be able to save
over it (because the directory itself is writeable), or a writeable file
which I can't save over. It depends on how the program tries to save (by
truncating the existing file or by creating a new one).


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