[openbeos] Re: Expander's behaviour (was: unrar)

> [snip]
> > >
> > Actually -v isn't necessary when extracting. When listing, it gives 
> > us 
> > extra info about files.
> > I don't understand why you want to change the listing command from 
> > -tvf 
> > to -tf
> 
> Because the long listing never fits on one line in expander, and 
> makes
> it hard to see which information belongs to which file. Also, as
> permissions aren't really implemented in BFS anyway, it is kinda 
> useless
> to see that data.

They *are*
Just you never see them in effect cause you're logged in as root 
whatever your $USER is (rtfm /bin/id).

> Finally I think BeOS/Haiku should be obvious for non-geeky types -
> if you want to know the contents of a zip, it means you want to know
> the files inside it. I question how important it is to know the
> permissions on those files.

That's a better reason.
How about a "verbose listing" checkbox in the prefs (would need 2 
option sets in the rules though).

François.

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