[Zope3-dev] Re: setting modified on create

[Shane Hathaway]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> 
> Shane Hathaway writes:
>  > This is just a minor thing, I know, but why do you need that indication?  
>  > I've never had any use for the creation time on filesystems; have you?
> 
> It's not a big thing, and I'd not use the word "need", but "want".  I
> like to know if I'm looking at a pile of things that have been
> maintained, and knowing that some subset of the objects in a folder
> have been modified since creation gives me the warm-n-fuzy that
> someone may have actually paid attention to them, or at least at the
> objects that cause these to be updated.
> 
> It may be that this isn't so generally valuable, but it feels
> desirable to me.

Ah, I appreciate that.  For a customer project, I gave the users that
warm-n-fuzzy feeling through a series of circles in the UI that started
empty but got filled as soon as the user interacted with certain pages.  
I hope that feature will get integrated into future applications.  Perhaps 
the folder listing could show one of those circles.

Shane