RE: File manager tree.
- From: "Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>
- To: "'gnome-list gnome org'" <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: RE: File manager tree.
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:51:23 -0700
Can't there be an option made to show it or not? Best of both worlds. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 1999 10:36 AM
To: gnome-hackers@nuclecu.unam.mx; gnome-list@gnome.org;
mc@nuclecu.unam.mx
Subject: File manager tree.
Hello guys,
So I fixed the bug people were reporting with the file manager tree
for displaying incorrect data. But this is not an optimal solution.
The problem is as follows:
1. The Windows-like feature of the tree in the file manager is
that you get a little square next to each directory which
can be empty for directories that do not contain any
subdirectories or a box with a plus sign, if the directory
contains subdirectories.
If you have a plus sign ([+]) and click on it, it converts
to a [-] icon and opens the tree.
This is a nice feature.
2. Slow file systems are all over the place in Unix. They
appear on the most unusual places: special directories might
refer to remote servers (afs, dfs), arbitrary locations can
be slow (NFS /users), or special vfs places (/#smb/ for
server listings).
The big problem here is that in order to achieve (1) you need to
do a 2-level scan of the directories: one pass to scan all the names
returned and stat the thing to figure out if the name is a directory,
or if it is a file (ie, if it is a subdirectory, we need to scan the
child to see if it has directories, in that case, we need to stick a
[+] sign there).
So, I would like to get rid of nice-feature-on-point-1. It is
nice, yes, but it makes all sorts of people upset because they can not
use the file manager on their systems.
Is there any objections to me removing the [+] feature from the
file manager?
Miguel.
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