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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)'
From:       Craig Drummond <Craig.Drummond () gmx ! net>
Date:       2003-08-21 9:27:09
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> On Thursday 21 August 2003 01:05, Stian Søiland wrote:
> > I don't understand this, 'directory' is more ambigious than a 'folder' -
> > a directory only lists items, it doesn't contain them. A folder  eh..
> > ..folds around stuff. =)
> 
> In the filesystem level, a directory is just a list of files. it doesn't 
> contain them. It is a collection of "pointers" (not in the programming
> sens
> e) 
> for files, so that you can map a filename to a physical location on the
> hd.

But as KDE is a GUI - its the representation that matters, not the actual
physical side.

> 
> -- 
> 	Henrique Pinto
> 	stampede@coltec.ufmg.br
> 

Craig.

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