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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Again - UI feedback from a Linux newbie (was Radio button
From:       "Tom Hoferek" <tomh () corel ! com>
Date:       2000-04-24 15:34:24
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> > For better or for worse, the Linux apps are not concentrated in one
> > single folder like the Windows "Program files" hierarchy. Instead,
> > one single application could be spread among folders like /etc,
> > /usr/bin, /usr/lib and similar. Therefore you could not really rely
> > on the file system to check what applications you have installed, but
> > you need some sort of database over installed applications.
>
> Just tossing out a wild idea here, but if someone was brave enough,
> they could create a system that mapped real files in a file system to
> (for want of a better term) packages in a hierarchical package system.
> Sort of like RPM on steroids :-)
>
> I'm imagining something like a mapping between real files in the Linux
> file system with pretend files in a more logically arranged pretend
> file system. The ordinary user could, eg delete a single application
> from the pretend file system, which would in turn delete the various
> scattered files from the real file system. The ordinary user need
> never see a real file ever.
>

Not a wild idea at all, but rather right on the mark. This is the sort of
thing that would help increase the usability of Linux imensely and would be
one more step towards making Linux the OS of choice for the masses. I like
this kind of thinking :-)

Tom

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