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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#17382: 'Verzeichnis' vs. 'Ordner'
From:       Michael Meding <Michael () Meding ! net>
Date:       2000-12-19 22:54:20
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Hi,

> I am for directory, because it was called directory ever and everywhere on
> Unix (and almost every other system), why should we suddenly now call it
> folder (I didn't understand why e.g. Microsoft did this)? And maybe the
> icon looks like a folder, but I cannot imagine a folder with subfolders and
> sub-subfolders in it, and I doubt that the analogy "folder" really is good
> to explain the concepts of files and directories to a new user. And users
> that used to call it "directory" (like me) might not like it much either.
> But I agree that it must at least be called the same everywhere.

I am also. And in fact most of the time it is a directory, anyway :) Just 
changing the german equivalent because micro$oft does this isn't enough for a 
justice for me :)

But since there could be an icon for a directory with subfolders upon it is 
filled with other subdirectorys (or folders where I consider a folder a 
directory with no other folders in it ;) ) why not two different names.

Not ?

Greetings

Michael


Ps not to be taken too seriously.
 
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