Re: Filer: Modifying source to remove permissions display

2009/9/8 Greg Bell <[email protected]>:
> Hi Guys,
>
> After years of using and loving ROX-Filer, I finally realised I have no
> use for the permissions, user or group columns in the details view.  Fun
> reason to have a look at the code.
>
> Looking at the source code, I see this in display.c:
>
> static char *details(FilerWindow *filer_window, DirItem *item)
> {
> .
> .
> .
>    else if (filer_window->details_type == DETAILS_TIMES)
>    {
>        guchar    *ctime, *mtime, *atime;
>
>        ctime = pretty_time(&item->ctime);
>        mtime = pretty_time(&item->mtime);
>        atime = pretty_time(&item->atime);
>
>        buf = g_strdup_printf("a[%s] c[%s] m[%s]", atime, ctime, mtime);
>        g_free(ctime);
>        g_free(mtime);
>        g_free(atime);
>    }
> .
> .
> .
>
> Nipping  this bit of code out and then recompiling (./AppRun --compile)
> yields no change to the resulting binary's behaviour.  Sorry if this is
> a noobie question, but what am I doing wrong?

That bit is about times, not permissions, users or groups.

You probably want to edit view_details_init() and remove the code to
add the columns.



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