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

"Stephan Assmus" <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I vote for verbose listing off and no option to turn it on. Expander 
> should be the tool to "get the job done" and to have clean out of the 
> box archive support in the OS, if anything more complicated is 
> needed, 
> there are other tools out there. Can you come up with a usage 
> scenario, 
> where a user would like to view the permissions of each file? And 
> there 
> is also an argument about having the listing be consitent across 
> different types of archives (zip, lha, ...). I don't see a good 
> reason 
> to display some info in one case, and not in the other.

I don't care about the permission flags, but I would find it quite 
annoying if other details such as date and size are hidden. For those 
who just want to get the job done, Expander already has the standard 
view which doesn't show the archive contents.

Bye,
   Axel.

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