D11897: Expose group information to Dolphin's Information panel, tooltips, etc

[Vlad Zagorodniy]

zzag added a comment.


  In D11897#239273 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11897#239273>, @ngraham wrote:
  
  > In D11897#239271 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11897#239271>, @zzag wrote:
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  > > Could you please enable file permissions by default? File permissions are way useful than Tags or Rating, which are already enabled by default.
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  > The people for whom file permission information is useful (technically oriented sysadmin/IT/programmer types who administer or work in a multi-user environment) should be able to find out for themselves how to enable this--or will once we make it more obvious! :-) I'm not sure that file permission information is relevant for most of Dolphin's target users, especially considering that the output right now is not human-readable (e.g. "rw-r--r--").
  
  
  
  
  In D11897#239274 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11897#239274>, @michaelh wrote:
  
  > Yep, my guess is most users rule their system anyway. For me they provide no useful info as I never navigate into say `/sys/bus/clockevents/` with dolpin. There's a konsole for those things.
  
  
  Well, I often wonder whether a given file is an executable or writable..
  F5785291: file-perms.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F5785291>
  Now, for example, I see that blur-lockscreen.sh is in fact an executable.
  
  > now is not human-readable (e.g. "rw-r--r--").
  
  Are there alternatives to traditional Unix permissions?
  Personally, I think it's okay to show traditional Unix file permissions because Linux is a Unix-like operating system* but I'm a "developer" so maybe my opinion shouldn't count.
  
   * Yes, yes, I know... Linux is a kernel.

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To: ngraham, #baloo, michaelh
Cc: zzag, michaelh, broulik, #dolphin, ashaposhnikov, astippich, spoorun, alexeymin
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