#: 16754 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    24-Oct-92  02:17:59
Sb: #16753-Desktop hacks
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)

I was really kind of thinking of optional info.

For example, you could pull an old Carl Kreider trick and use all that empty
space in the "." and ".." directory entries.  Say, put an LSN pointer to a file
with info on the files.  Any new files would be added as desktop came through.

Hmm. Never mind on that idea.... you could just do that with a .file you made
yourself!  That is, when Desktop goes into a directory and doesn't find a
precompiled .desktop file with info on all the other files, you create one (or,
if a file is new or deleted, update your .desktop file).

That way, most of the time that Desktop enters a directory, all the info on the
files has already been researched!  Result: huge speedup even if you have
different icons for basic, C, scripts, etc files.

I'm typing this in on-line, but I think you should do this, the more I think
about it!  The only "catch" would be if someone put a different type of file
with the same old name as a previous one.  But then, you could just let the
user trigger a .desktop update in that case.

Well enuf thinking on the fly.  Later! - kev