Re: File manager tree.

[Malcolm Edwards <malcolm ecemail newcastle edu au>]

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>     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?

Windows NT doesn't do the scan for remote drives - it leaves a [+], but if
you click on it and there are no subdirectories the [+] just disappears.
This could fix the problem.

Malcolm Edwards