Re: alternative filesystem view

"Roger Binns" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <004301c5eb45$e8d3e9c0$8e0917ac@rogersqyvr14d3>
> 2. dirs that have no subdirs should not have the + icons,
> which would disappear once expanded, ie dirs should know 
> whether or not they have any subdir children.

That can only be done by predicting the future, or by reading
all subdirectories when all the user asked for is the parent
directory.

There are many UIs that take the old approach.  It will
also behave correctly if a subdirectory does appear.

Roger


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