Ticket #3370 (closed defect: duplicate)
Lower [hardlink]'s precedence
| Reported by: | mooffie | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | |
| Component: | mc-config-ini | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
On my system I noticed that sometimes files (pictures, vids) aren't colored according to their types:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30k9atw&s=8
...as seen here, some 'png' files and one 'flv' aren't colored. It turns out that these files have 2 or more links pointing to them (see the "nlink" column in the screenshot). I don't know why these files have 2 links. It happens to be an NTFS partition. Maybe it's not uncommon there to find such things.
Now, look at filehighlight.ini:
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/blob/master/misc/filehighlight.ini
"[hardlink]" comes before "[graph]", which is why (I think) it gets precedence.
So I think we should move the [hardlink] section to the bottom of the file. Why? It demands too much cognitive effort of the user to have colors serve two different purposes (indicating either filesystem-type or application-type). Unless hardlinks are shown in *very* distinctive colors (something no default skin does), common users won't "get" them.
Closed as duplicate of #3234.
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