On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they?
As I understand matters, it's an extension of the "desktop" metaphor. Back before computers (and to some extent afterward), people used to keep files - in the form of physical, paper documents - sorted in manila folders, and only pull them out of those folders onto the tops of their desks for actual use; when computers came along and "desktop" was invented as a metaphor for a hopefully-intutive user-interface paradigm, they called the things you could use to sort files apart from one another so that they didn't all appear on the desktop at once "folders" in an effort to make that similarly intuitive. And then the terminology stuck. It probably doesn't hurt that a common way to display them graphically is in a nested, hierarchical tree style; the way a branch of the tree collapses when the nodes under it are hidden can be intuitively-enough called "folding", much as a similar hiding collapse in your more advanced code-focused text editor is commonly called "code folding" or "syntax folding". But I think that's secondary. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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