[Thunar-dev] Thunar Architecture (relations)

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Mar 29 17:24:49 CEST 2005


abo wrote:
>>Hm, personally I agree with botsie's earlier posts, that we should not 
>>put special flags (like sticky, suid, sgid, xattrs, ...) into the UI, as 
>>99.99% of all users will never want to touch it,
> 
> i disagree. one of the most expected features of 2.6 kernel branch was
> acls, and its use is growing quickly even in home desktops. i found an
> advanced permissions tab pretty usefull.

Who expected this feature? Who needs this feature? How many real users 
do you have on your home machine? 5? 10? Does the average user care for 
it? Or is it a geek toy (to be serious, most geeks won't need that 
feature either, or will atleast be able to figure that they'll have to 
execute chflags and friends)?

Ask yourself, how often would you need it (need != toying around with no 
real use case)? Note, that Thunar is not a system administration 
utility, but a simple file manager.

> regards
> abo

greets,
Benedikt



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