Regular users can't edit text files

Posted Mar 9, 2017 15:45 UTC (Thu) by droundy (guest, #4559)
Parent article: Giving Upspin a spin

"Our target is regular users and funny characters are not friendly to regular users."

This is a naive argument. Regular users can't edit text files, and probably don't know what a text file is. Any user interface needs to provide a means of editing the access control, and these files Access and Groups should therefore be hidden, and their names don't matter any more to a regular user.

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Regular users can't edit text files

Posted Mar 10, 2017 2:41 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (1 responses)

Not to mention it doesn't even have a file extension.

If the file was named Access.txt, at least users could click on it and have an editor open.

Regular users can't edit text files

Posted Mar 12, 2017 22:43 UTC (Sun) by lsl (guest, #86508) [Link]

That's exactly what happens anyway regardless of the file's name. At least as long as the first couple bytes of the file don't confuse your file manager into taking it for something else.