Re: file selector-power users excluded

["Steve Luzynski" <sluzynsk sound net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Soros <bobsoros@yahoo.com>
To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 8:35 PM
Subject: file selector-power users excluded

[snipped, idea to put security settings in standard file save dialogs]
> I'm not a power user by any means, if you think novice users would be
>scared by a *security* setting (security setting is only an example)
>on files, then change the wording around a bit,
>
>Instead of
>
> Set UID Bit 0 on file to Group UID of 500 via encrypted public key
>jargon jargon jargon.
>
>Translate this to english, then the novice user can understand it,
>make it more intuitive, ie.

How about leaving the rwxrwxrwx flags there, making them toggle-able (is
that even a word?) by clicking on them, and making the tooltip/cursor help
pop a reminder as to which group of flags affects which permissions(r/g/o)?
That way people who understand them can just click what they want (if it's
outside the default the umask for the directory sets, which arguably should
be correct in most cases...).

I think that might make more sense then trying to *completely* hide the
permissions. Anyone venturing into command line mode is going to see them
anyway.

This would be a cool addition to the save dialog (along with the rename,
create dir, etc. stuff mentioned earlier). Is GNOME 1.1 available to hack on
yet?:)