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Subject:    Fw: [Gallery-devel] create link
From:       "Larry Menard" <larry.menard () rogers ! com>
Date:       2006-05-31 12:56:08
Message-ID: 2eb801c684b1$97f6a780$6501a8c0 () larryhome
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   I guess I'll wade into this too...

   Be careful to not think too much like Developers... think like your 
simplest User.  I think that many Users won't know what hard or soft links 
are, and so on.

   The word 'cheap' would send me running away... it could be interpreted as 
'low quality'.

   The average User would likely associate the word 'Copy' to the end-object 
(the image), not the under-the-covers metadata.  So I agree with those who 
didn't like that.

   I am familiar with Linux, UNIX and Windows environments (but am primarily 
a Windows User), and if I understand the original question correctly, it 
sounds to me basically like a Windows 'Shortcut'.

   Question:  Why don't we just ask that Usability person (I forget her 
name) what she thinks is appropriate?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Georg Rehfeld" <rehfeld@georg-rehfeld.de>
To: "Alan Harder" <alan.harder@sun.com>
Cc: <gallery-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Gallery-devel] create link


> Hi,
>
> I agree with Alan, for the item as a whole it is more a copy than a
> link.
>
> Alan Harder wrote:
>> I don't know why someone said "we already ruled out copy"..
>> who ruled it out and why do you think there is no copy?  Metadata
>> is copied.. that's the main reason I don't like the use of "link",
>> as it may imply changing the title/summary/etc in the original
>> will also affected the other linked items.. it won't (some people
>> probably want that).  I think this action is closer to copy than
>> to link, as several things are copied and only one thing is linked.
>
> So I suggest 'Cheap Copy'. This is the term SVN uses for 'the same
> concept as a hard-link'. And it indicates even to the average user, that
> it is sort of a copy, but a special one. I believe, most users will
> intuitively assume, that the 'cheap' saves disk space/time.
>
> And I go for a separate module.
>
> Regards, Georg/xlerb/deerwood
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