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: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:49:07 -0300
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.
Well, the point actually was you don't _have_ to remember all those cryptic codes... :-)
I'll look into it, but this raises a UI question: is it OK to display data in one format in an editable field ("drxwrxwrxw") but accept editing only in another format ("777")? Sounds unintuitive to me, frankly. I think at least it should accept changing one of the 'r's to '-', for instance... but then I'd have to write a special formatter to not let people change (or even select) the 'd'...
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