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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Permissions Label on File and Folder Previews
From:       "Jamethiel Knorth" <jamethknorth () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-08-13 15:42:53
Message-ID: BAY24-F33BQ8CLGGTgX000470cf () hotmail ! com
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>From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo@kde.org>
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:18:33 -0600
>
>On Thursday 12 August 2004 10:22, Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote:
> > the same to a file in the root folder owned by root with the permissions
> > -rw-r--r-- he thought that this meant the same as the previous one that 
>he
> > could read and write to the file.
>
>this should be brought into sync with the terminology used in the 
>Permissions
>tab of the file properties dialog. the traditional user/group/world string
>can also be there underneath it all for power users. if we were feeling 
>extra
>fancy we could even color code the permissions string and use those same
>colours in the Owner/Group/Others descriptive texts, thus helping new users
>learn the meaning of things a bit =)
>
>i'd also like to see a statement on what the user you are logged in as can 
>do.
>it's one thing to say a file is owned by root and can be read by the owner,
>but what does that mean for the user?
>
>something like:
>
>Permissions: -rwxr-x---
>You (aseigo) can read, write and run this file.
>The owner (aseigo) can read, write and run this file.
>Members of the group Users can read and execute this file.
>Others are forbidden from using this file.

That's going to be a huge amount of information for a tooltip. I'd recommend 
changing the line to just saying the permissions for the current user, so it 
would be:

Permissions:     read, write, and execute

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