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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system
From:       Manuel Amador <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2002-12-04 20:55:15
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Hi there,

This is the first argument in the entire discussion that has made a good
deal of sense, from an usability standpoint.  You have my sincere
recognition =).  Although I never pull out files to work on them on the
desktop, I understand people who do.  But dragging a file to work on it
to the homedir would be equal to dragging it to the desktop, so it
really doesn't matter much, as long as you have a Documents (or several)
folder and keep things tidy.

I don't understand why the KDE people want to force everyone to suit
them instead of suiting everyone else.  Why would I ever want
applications saving to the desktop?  It would become a mess, killing the
whole purpose of what they're advocating for.

Everyone else is running around in circles saying "if we change the
desktop then the desktop won't be the desktop".

luck,

     Manuel

El mié, 04-12-2002 a las 04:42, James Richard Tyrer escribió:
> Manuel Amador wrote:
> >>You say that you have files stored in folders in you home directory. 
> >>Wouldn't it be just as convenient to have them in a Desktop object -- 
> >>call it 'file cabinet'.  You take folders or files out of the file 
> >>cabinet while you are using them and then put them away when you are 
> >>done with them.
> > 
> > We could but why?  Two more operations for the user.  might as well go
> > straight towards the goal (working with data).
> > 
> Well, when I am working on something at my REAL desk, I leave it out 
> while I am working on it rather than have to look through my filing 
> cabinet for it each time I want to use it again.
> 
> The purpose of leaving a file that you are currently working on out on 
> the computer desktop is: (1) so you will remember that you are supposed 
> to do it, (2) so you don't have to go looking for it in a folder with 
> 100s of files every time you want to use it.
> 
> Perhaps you work on things at only one siting.  But that isn't the way 
> many people work.  If you were writing a HOWTO (for example) would you 
> do it all at one siting or would you keep doing work on it a little at a 
> time till you finished it?  If so, you would leave it on the desktop 
> till it was finished and then file it away.  It is the same way for me 
> with business letters.  I write a first draft and leave it on the 
> desktop and only after I have written the final draft and printed it do 
> I file it away.  If you don't work that way, this is not mandatory, but 
> many people DO work that way.
> 
> --
> JRT
> 
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