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

Selon Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> [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. 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.
>
>

Maybe this -v option gives us dates and size of files too, no ? The window
is resizable, to better see information.
The solution of removing information on an optional panel of Expander isn't
very good to me. We can add an horizontal scrollbar, but it might not fit with
the shell ouputs we get.

Bye,
Jérôme

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