From: Alex Chudnovsky (chalex_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 08 Apr 2003 - 09:12:27 IDT
On Monday 07 April 2003 12:49, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> *Shudder*. "Tikiya" is "folder". I oppose M$' attempts to invent new
> terms for everything (except when I'm inventing them ;). My serious
> objection is that unix directories are very different from M$' vision
> of "folders" like "Printers", "My Computer", "My precious", etc...
> There is basic common theme with /dev, NFS mounts, plan9 ideas and the
> like but unix directories are all about a simple model to present to
> programs while windows folders are all about magic complex behaivour
> to present to users. Just compare symlinks to .lnk shortcuts.
Compare .lnk shortcuts to KDE / GNOME .desktop, or to CDE .action files and
not to symlinks. It should be better this way.
-- Regards, Alex Chudnovsky e-mail : chalex_at_netvision.net.il ICQ : 35559910 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il
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