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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: A radical idea
From:       Alistair Davidson <lord_inh () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-12 21:34:03
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Chris Howells wrote:

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> On Monday 12 November 2001 20:06, Alistair Davidson wrote:
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>>I'm really just throwing out a crazy idea here, and I expect to be flamed
>>into a cinder, or told it's technically infeasible, but I really think this
>>would improve KDE's usability a lot.
>>
> 
> Yes, but KDE =! UNIX.
> 
> KDE is simply a desktop/graphical interface that runs on many flavours of 
> UNIX.
> 
> What you're talking about is fundamentally redesigning UNIX (30 years old) 
> from the ground up -- not a trivial change to KDE.


No, I'm not.


Me: "Anyway, that's the principle, how would it work in practise?

An alternate file-browser that presents its own, user-friendly, directory 
structure is one option."


See? A KDE file browser that takes the usual UNIX directory structure and 
represents it in an entirely different way when the user is interacting with it.

-- 
Alistair Davidson
Read my comic, Bizmatch! http://www.altgeek.org/lord_inh/comic/index.html
"Disloyalty in a democracy is to stop asking questions."


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