From kde-usability  Sun Aug 10 18:34:44 2003
From: Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:34:44 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Recents apps in KDE menu confusing for users.
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On Sunday 10 August 2003 19:39, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Le Dimanche 10 Août 2003 19:12, Kai Lahmann a écrit :
> .
> > The "quick browser" is a nice toy for geeks...
> 
> I also agree that the "quick browser" should become an option in the Menu.

already is,

> The  
> less the common user is exposed to the Linux File Hierarchy, the better. 
> Normally a 'dumb' user shouldn't have to know more than the hierarchy in his 
> home directory.

[Warning: OT]

Actually I was thinking about this the other day and realised that despite the 
silly drive letters and its single user orientation, windows is really ahead 
of Unix in this reguard (although more by accident than design). Consider 
what your traditional windows file dialog shows at its top level: (yes, 
recent windows versions have changed this a bit, I know)

A: Floppy
C: My Computer
D: CDROM
E: Data
N: Network Share

A,D,E and N hold the user's data on floppy, cdrom, network share etc. C:\My 
Documents\ acts as the user's home dir, and even has a reasonable name. The 
OS is hidden away under C:\Windows. User data files are well within reach.

Now compare that to a linux box:

bin/   dev/  home/    lib/  opt/   root/  tmp/  var/
boot/  etc/  initrd/  mnt/  proc/  sbin/  usr/

Which one is easier for the average user? Where's the network drive and the 
CDROM? What is all this junk?

-- 
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