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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: "Folder" or "Directory"?
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-20 15:59:55
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On Saturday 18 October 2003 17:50, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> My reasoning is this:
[...]

Just another mostly irrelevant opinion -- I've always seen a "folder" as a 
term referring to a logical grouping of items on the system, of which a 
"directory" is a specialization of.  A folder is just a grouping; a directory 
is something that maps to the actual file system...

I see this as basically parallel to the differences between calling KMail 
"Email Client" or "KMail" -- is it important to inform the user of the 
specific type of folder we'll be creating?  Do they care?

If say at some point we supported a dynamic meta data based way to view 
information on the hard disk (a la Storage) would we want "Movies by 
Kubrick" (a "folder") to be represented the same way as "/home" (a 
directory)?

-Scott

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person to fool. 
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