Re: [PATCH] Don't use file type in sidebar for "abstract" files

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 17:02 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.10.2005, 10:53 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 20:04 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 10:30 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:
> > > > 
> > > > So, unless we have a very well specified and useful semantics for them
> > > > we shouldn't introduce new abstract properties like that. Its better to
> > > > have specific ones instead (nautils_file_display_type() maybe?).
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your valuable remarks. For consistency reasons, I've called
> > > the function nautilus_file_should_show_type.
> > 
> > Why not show the type ("folder") for things like trash, burn and fonts?
> > They are essentially normal folders containing files.
> 
> Because they're IMHO perceived as being very special locations. "CD/DVD
> Creator", "Fonts" "Trash" ("Themes" as well, btw.) doesn't suggest that
> they are ordinary folders.

I'm not sure they are "ordinary", but they are surely folders, and act
in that way in every normal sense. The only way they are different is
that they support extra "features". (Well, maybe not "fonts".)

I guess I don't see the huge advantage of not saying that the burn:
toplevel folder is a folder.

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