Em Qui, 2002-05-09 ?s 16:13, Thomas Diehl escreveu: > Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2002 19:49 schrieb Michel Loos: > > > In the beginning (Win pre-95) folders and directories where 2 different > > things: You where able to organize your files in folders while they were > > still in the same DOS directory: therefore they needed another word. > > > > On the first macs there was nearly no directories at all on the HD only > > the organization in folders in the GUI, accessing the HD in an other way > > you had a flat structure, just like the win3 folders. > > > > In fact the organization in folders has nearly dissapeared all systems > > use directories. > > > > We can keep folder for historical reasons, but directory would be much > > better. > > I must admit the relevance of this for the decision at hand is totally > beyond me. I can understand (and even share the sentiment) if somebody > says: "directory" is the traditional Linux/Unix thing. KDE is Linux/Unix > after all. Let's keep consistence and stick to our roots. >
Not only Linux/Unix, it is a common concept of file organization, present in MS-DOS, AppleDOS,PRODOS, Multics etc. Folder is a concept of document organization still present in most Spreadsheet programs, desktop publishing etc. The 2 concepts are not necessarely related a folder of documents can be a single file, or various files, you can have various folders in the same directory each of them represented by various files (very current in desktop or web publishing). Often a folder of documents is kept as a directory of files but not always. If you don't try to understand history you end up mixing up 2 different concepts just because they often overlap. > But the main thing we are talking here is user perception: which term may be > clearer to the people out there, which one is more widely used in existing > GUIs, more likely to be expected therefore, more consistent with what our > icon artists are doing etc. Do you really think a piece of ancient computer > history hardly anybody of these users ever heard of (or cared about) should > really be a factor in that decision? I don't think so. > User perception is based on the terms we use, it should not be the opposite, if the terms are well used the user will get a better understanding of his machine. And not search for the different files that compose the folder of spreadsheets he just edited. Michel. > Words change their meaning all the time. There is even a washing powder > called "Linux". Should this also be a factor when discussing eg kernel > issues? Don't think so either. Happily, most people don't think of washing > powder when they hear the term "Linux" these days. > > Regards, > > Thomas > > > -- > KDE translation: http://i18n.kde.org/ > Deutsche KDE-Uebersetzung: http://i18n.kde.org/teams/de/ >
