Hello! On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, bulia byak wrote:
> > I have to agree with Andrew - "extension" is a foreign word on UNIX. > > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2002-October/msg00102.html) Some > > users don't understand this word, as the above paragraph shows. > > Sorry I could not understand how this relates to the proposed patch. I meant this phrase: BTW, "File associations" is more right name for "Extension File". Extension is an concept from MS DOS. Not that I want to change the manual and the menu right now. > This is something I can understand even less. The proposed patch allows > to color file types by editing a config file, or through a dialog at > runtime. So the result would be the opposite - no more patches, never. > Everyone is able to define their own extensions and colors without > recompiling. What is wrong with this? Check this thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-July/msg00097.html Just because users are free to modify config files it doesn't mean they won't request changes in the default config files. Another example: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-February/msg00025.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-July/msg00073.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2002-July/msg00080.html > > And we only have 16 colors, some (most!) of which are already taken > > (black - pipe, magenta - device, green - executable, red - core etc). > > Oh my, it never occurred to me that 4 is "most!" of 16. I didn't try to send a complete list. > Well, of course I'm not going to try to persuade the developers that > this is good, if they are so determined otherwise. I'm just sharing my > experience. If anyone is interested, please write to me and I will share > the patch. Try to persuade Russell, who believes that you can already do this in 4.5.55. Or work on the features that users actually request. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
