[haiku-development] Renaming folders in ~/config or /system

From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:58:29 +0200

Hi there!

TigerKidd asked on IRC about ticket #10123 "Add warning alert to
critical folders in ~/config" [1].
I don't think the ticket as-is is valid anymore. Before changing it,
I'd like to discuss how the behaviour should be.

Currently there are the read-only folders of the PM in ~/config and
/system (e.g. add-ons, bin, lib). Renaming them doesn't work (though
Tracker's menu item "Edit name" isn't ghosted). Deleting results in a
read-only-alert.

Then there are folders like "cache, non-packaged, packages, settings,
var" (do you call those "virtual" or "see-thru"?). You're still
allowed to rename them, but the name-change doesn't stick.

Ticket #10123 demands an alert, like it already appears when renaming
"settings" but  the question is: Should their names be editable in the
first place? Or is the actual bug that they currently appear editable,
but actually shouldn't be?

Thanks for clearing that up.
Regards,
Humdinger

[1] https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10123


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