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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Again - UI
From:       "Philip Rackus" <philipr () corel ! com>
Date:       2000-04-20 12:12:50
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Once again your thinking in terms of ideals.  Ideally every average user has a \
knowledgeable sysadmin to take care of this for them.  In reality many users (notably \
linux and SCO) in single user or SOHO environments are their own sysadmin.  The \
interface should be simple enough for them to understand.

Phil

Tomas Furmonavicius wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 07:21:35PM -0400, Phil Rackus wrote:
> > 
> > Ideally the user shouldn't *have* to care about the file system.  The key word is \
> > ideally.  In an ideal world, hard drives wouldn't crash, partitions would be \
> > infinately large and no one would ever have cause to re-install their system. 
> > It is good practise to strive to an ideal, but it  is important to make sure that \
> > your solution is practical in todays non-ideal world. 
> > Imagine you need to re-install your primary partition (for whatever reason), but \
> > you have 5GB of files that you need to save somewhere.  Without any idea of which \
> > partition is which  or even if it is local or networked, it could be challenging \
> > to put your files in a 'safe' location for backup.
> > 
> > Perhaps the goal (for now) should be to make all filesystems (remote, local etc) \
> > *behave* like a local filesystem, while still making all the information \
> > available to the user. 
> 
> There are lots of apps showing filesystem status, so it's not a problem.
> Some of them let mount/unmount filesystems too.
> 
> But on the other hand , it's not a task of ordinary user to backup
> filesystems or reinstall them. And any system administrator probably
> will feel more comfortable with simple 'mount' (which lists all mounted
> filesystems).
> 
> Tomas


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