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Bug 20862

Summary: Navigator or Explorer read-only indication
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Trevor Vaughan <trevor_vaughan>
Component: UIAssignee: Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: dirk_baeumer
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Trevor Vaughan CLA 2002-06-23 08:33:58 EDT 
It would be very useful if the Navigator or Package Explorer views could 
indicate to the user which files were read-only. 

To avoid visual clutter, the user could have a toggle switch to indicate which 
files were read-only / not read-only. If I had a working set of say 20 files 
and at anyone time only half a dozen would/should be writable at any one time 
then I would toggle the switch to indicate those files which were writable.

Indication of the property could be by having the name of the said files in a 
diff colour or shade. Maybe another icon.

Again the manner of indication could also be a customisable feature.

Regards

Trevor Vaughan
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-07-30 06:20:08 EDT 
Good idea. Nick, do you plan something like this for the Navigator. We should 
be consistent in this manner ?
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-07-30 14:25:33 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10464 ***