On 10/3/05 4:36 PM, Patrick McClaughry didst favor us with:
>
> On Sep 30, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
>
>> On 9/30/05 1:15 PM, Patrick McClaughry didst favor us with:
>>
>>> That's a great question. From my reading of DesktopServices, no, the
>>> name-lock Finder flag is no longer consulted under X. Note that I
>>> didn't try this first hand yet though.
>>
>> The Finder ignores it. Is this a bug, another classic feature that's been
>> quietly dropped, or one of those "we haven't decided what to do about it"
>> issues? I'm not just asking out of curiosity. My application let's people
>> see the name-locked bit, but if it's been declared permanently
>> deprecated/obsolete I want to remove that from my application.
>>
>> Larry
>
> I have examined all the Finder* sources going back to 9.0 and the
> isNameLocked bit in the FinderInfo was lost in the transition from 9
> to X 10.0. By all indications the loss was unintentional (a bug) and
> there is no reason I can see why we could not return to checking the
> bit. Of course the bit is just one of the now various reasons the
> user might not be able to rename an item, but that's not a surprise,
> I imagine, to anyone on this list.
>
> * I say 'Finder' when in fact under X this is really DesktopServices,
> the private framework used by the Finder and Nav and Open/Save. Under
> 9 it really was the Finder proper that inspected this data. I cannot
> comment with certainty about what DesktopServices plans to do or not
> do since DesktopServices != Finder but Laurence's bug has been routed
> to the correct place.
Awesome. Thanks for checking, and I'll leave that checkbox in. ;-)
Does this mean I don't need to file a bug or should I file one anyway?
So is DesktopServices also the party responsible for the Finder ignoring
changes to the invisible bit?
Larry
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