[iyonix-support] Re: 5.13 directory access details
- From: davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:45:05 +0000
Quoting Richard Torrens <Richard.Torrens@xxxxxxx>:
> In article <45E0B2F7.70206@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The access menu details are ONLY initialised if a single file is
> > selected.. multiple files or directories cause it to come up
> > uninitialised .. for logical reasons
>
> > John
>
> Seems more logical to me to have the details set to those of the first
> file in the selection.
Good grief, that would be mightily confusing. Which would you define
to be the first?
JWB is right about the logical reasons. If we drag a directory to
another directory viewer, we expect the entire contents of the directory
to be copied; certainly not just the directory itself (unless the
directory is empty, of course). So we mostly expect that "a directory"
really means and refers to a collection of objects.
I would expect the permissions to either:
1) not be filled in; or
2) be filled in in black if /all/ the objects in the directory
have the same permissions, otherwise be filled in in grey.
That's like Doze does it. It's also far more complicated to do
- and it will take longer to fill in the permissions; it won't
be instant like now.
I'll vote for (1).
Dave
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