Re: [PATCH]: Make file properties dialog a window

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:43:16AM -0500, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 03:27, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 bordoley msu edu wrote:
> > 
> > > However if metadata was properly inherited by child folders from their parent 
> > > than i would encourage the object property. 
> > 
> > Although that would be very very slow. You'd have to recurse upward to the 
> > root for every lookup.
> 
> I actually think there are concept issues as well, since in a desktop
> environment, the "root" or global parent folder should be the desktop
> itself not "/", which would create some interesting problems. But this
> is all future talk anyway....
> 

Well, we had this same problem with "start-here"

The obvious quick step to take is to have some way for a gnome-vfs
module to virtualize the window title.

Havoc