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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Home Folder - kuser.po
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-27 12:16:39
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On Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2003 17:50, Andrea Rizzi wrote:
> What about kuser?
> "Home directory" in kuser is not about GUI buttons, icon, bookmarks
> etc... it really is the "UNIX home directory" like in konsole tips.
>
> Just 2 examples:
> kuser.pot:msgid "Base of home folders:"
> kuser.pot:msgid "Copy skeleton to home folder"

Both sound OK to me - but that's surely a matter of taste.

The very fact that the home folder in UNIX and Linux slang is called
the "home directory" (since there a folder is called "directory")
does not mean that this slang is the only possible way of addressing
these things.

I am not religious about this but the expression "this sounds bad" (or
good, resp.) does not look like a strong reason: people just get used to
some strange terms (like "directory") and then another word does not 
sound familiar but funny - but this feeling will change over 
time...  ;-)

Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>
 "For every complex problem there is an
  answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."  H. L. Mencken, 1880 - 1956

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