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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: "Folder" or "Directory"?
From:       Gudmund Areskoug <fta () algonet ! se>
Date:       2003-10-26 8:55:19
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Hi,

Thomas Diehl wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2003 01:22 schrieb Craig Drummond:
> 
> Well, I think it also has to do with other "OSs" (or, strictly speaking: 
> "GUIs"). Originally, the term came from Atari and MacOS. Since MS followed,  
> about the whole GUI world has "folder" and our main target group is used to 
> this term, ie people who are not Unix freaks (and yes, privately I will 
> probably always use "directory" myself).

that this debate keeps popping up seems to indicate there is a real 
difference in both the meaning and the use of the words, not just 
old habits.

 From what I've heard, one of the original main ideas with *folders* 
was that it shouldn't matter what *directories* (or even what 
computers) the contents of the *folder* came from, so the 
(unknowing) user shouldn't have to bother in the GUI with the inner 
computer geographics, but rather organize stuff intuitively.

If that was indeed so, IMHO it's a pity the meaning drifted towards 
melting together.

BR,
Gudmund

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