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I'd like to have a simple indication for read-only files. I find the Attr column too cluttered and the Color Filter to "in-your-face" for the purpose.

I have suggestions, but none of them seem any good:
- extend Color Filter to be able to set font style, so I could make read-only files italics. Don't know if it would be subtle enough though.
- make Attr column user configurable. I really don't care about anything but R in that column as the ones important to me have some other means of indication (like hidden or directory)
- add Uber-column that shows the result of a script that gets the respective list item as a parameter so I could check its read-only attribute and return the respective result (which means a script would run for every single item in the list, which is probably not such a good idea)

My knee-jerk reaction was that this should be possible via a VF, but upon further research I could not see a way (an idea for a wish here ). Short of wishing for it, I'd write a script that would loop through all files in the current list, pull AttributesDescription using property() SC and search the string for R. It's a complicated approach, so I'm hoping that there is an easier way

...specially for those of us who are into reading and editing files copied off of optical media.

Just for clarification: what I would like to have is an easier way to spot read-only files. The reason being so I know which files I have to svn lock before I open them for editing.

phitsc wrote:Just for clarification: what I would like to have is an easier way to spot read-only files. The reason being so I know which files I have to svn lock before I open them for editing.

I don't understand your problems with Color Filter. You can use colors that are not in-your-face but still recognizable enough.

admin wrote:

phitsc wrote:Just for clarification: what I would like to have is an easier way to spot read-only files. The reason being so I know which files I have to svn lock before I open them for editing.

I don't understand your problems with Color Filter. You can use colors that are not in-your-face but still recognizable enough.

Yeah, maybe I'll have to play around with them a bit.