On Thursday 12 October 2006 20:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > But lot many people use Debian on their desktops/laptops and I guess they
> > would be using gui tools to navigate through the filesystem. We should
> > consider those systems/users too.
>
> The GUI tools that:
>       1. Pass themselves off as file managers
>       2. Modify atime of every file that was just "listed"
>
> are hopelessly broken.  They have to be fixed not to change atime of the
> files, (they can, arguably, leave the directory atime's alone, as it *was*
> accessed).


But then how do you think features like "Thumbnails" and "Icon Preview of the 
file" can be accomplished _without_ accessing the file ?

Thanks,
Ritesh
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