Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- Subject: Re: ANN: XRay 1.0b2 avaliable for download
- From: "Eric L. Anderson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:54:23 -0500
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:49:07AM -0300, Rainer Brockerhoff wrote:
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At 19:00 -0700 on 03/10/2001, John C. Randolph wrote:
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>one suggestion:
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>Make the box where you show the -rwxr-x-r-x POSIX-type permisssions editable. I'd like to be able to select that box, and then type "a+w", or "777", or anything else that chmod can understand, and have XRay apply the change.
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Well, the point actually was you don't _have_ to remember all those cryptic
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codes... :-)
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I'll look into it, but this raises a UI question: is it OK to display data
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in one format in an editable field ("drxwrxwrxw") but accept editing only
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in another format ("777")? Sounds unintuitive to me, frankly. I think at i
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least it should accept changing one of the 'r's to '-', for instance... but
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then I'd have to write a special formatter to not let people change (or
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even select) the 'd'...
How about a preferences setting which sets how permissions are displayed,
either in symbolic or numeric. Then, which ever version is displayed is the
method in which they can be edited. In other words, if the display is set to
symbolic, then you can only modify the permissions symbolically.
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Eric L. Anderson
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