Re: [doug@bagley.org: Re: mouse-1-click-follows-link in diredsurprising]

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    I generally agree with Drew on this -- in very "link dense" buffers,
    excessive highlighting can be more annoying than helpful.

    In the case of dired, however, there is a slight problem (especially
    with recent verions of GNU ls[*]) with visually separating the filename
    from the file-info on the same line.  Perhaps it would be a good idea to
    give the _other_ fields (date, etc) a slightly different face to
    de-emphasize them a bit?

What's the difference between putting a different face on the file
names and putting a different face on everything but the file names?
Either way, the file names have one face and the rest of the text has
another.  They seem like two ways of describing the same situation.