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[Wish?] Context Menu & Props Directly in Z   [Tip]

By: Jim Farnsworth       
Date: Nov 09,2000 at 05:14
In Response to: [Wish?] Context Menu & Props Directly in Z (Walter Rassbach)

> I have a simple question: What does wanting to be
> able to get at Properties and Context have to do
> with the "rat"?? I would think all of
> the anti-rat people would prefer to be able to get
> at them from ZTree rather than be forced to go
> through Exploder or some other GUI interface to
> get at them.

> I can't really imagine that they believe that they
> can do without the Properties menu at a minimum...

If you can find a way to modify properitys through ZTree
thats fine. But, As much as I use ZTree, and, as highly
as I regard its capabilities; why would anyone want to
use ZTree for *everything*.

Most of the time Ztree is a very efficent interface for
working with files and other aspects of the system. But
the idea that a GUI interface is inherently bad is
totaly unfounded. Both text based and GUI interfaces
have their strong and weak points. If you aren't using
both then you really aren't using the full potential of
the system. The GUI interface and the rat are a part
of all that and are sometimes the most efficent way to
acomplish a task.

I really don't want Ztree to become that Swiss army
knife, which frankly isn't 100% effective at anything.
There are other tools which already handle Properties
(isn't that a GUI concept?) effectively.

JimF

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