On 2/14/07, Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:26 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I always found the Microsoft way of naming things ridiculous (My > > Documents, Program Files), and I surely won't name my music directory > > the ugly Music, rather 'music' or 'sounds' or whatever else but Music. > > $ ls -d */ > Archives/ Documents/ Maildir/ Pictures/ public_html/ Templates/ > bin/ Local/ Mess/ Programming/ Music/ WebSites/ > > I must be ridiculous. > > You are marking youself as a hard-core terminal geek by saying that > "music" is beautiful but "Music" is ugly. Most "normal" (read: > non-geeks) people capitalise these directories. I'm a geek but I like > them to be uppercase as they are proper nouns, effectively.
There's no other reason other than that I find the capitalization an eyesore and always am surprised why so many users practice it. I even have an idea that it's inherited from the Windows way of doing things. I do the capitalisation thing when giving names to certain files, like audio/video names, people names, ... just a stylistic choice. The idea is I won't like it if someone tries and hardcode a path into which he wants me to put all my media in. Choice's good, often... _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
