Re: [rox-users] Dir in Apps dir

[Stuart L. <aqu...@kr...>]

Stuart Langridge spoo'd forth:
> Thomas Leonard spoo'd forth:
>> For example, how do you represent the menu option:
>> 
>>        go=u-w (Public access, not write)
>> 
>> That is, the permissions for 'group' and 'other' should be set to whatever
>> the permissions are for the user, except without write access.
> 
> If you've got individual boxes for read, write, and execute for each of
> user, group, and other, then you don't need that; it's surely perfectly
> easy for the user to just copy the u permissions into g and o. Having
> just checked, a file doesn't "remember" that it's been set to go=u-w,
> so a file with those permissions doesn't have its g and o permissions
> changed if you later change the u permissions. 

Having written that, I have no solution at all for the
changing-multiple-files-at-once problem :) Maybe each "checkbox" should
actually be a multi-state thing, so instead of off/on, it could be
unconditional-off/add/remove/unconditional-on? This might be a bit
against the Rox Way, mind :)

sil

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