From kde-usability Tue Aug 26 04:36:52 2003 From: Stian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8iland?= Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 04:36:52 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)' X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106187267812269 On 2003-08-21 10:56:54, Henrique Pinto wrote: > 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 sense) > for files, so that you can map a filename to a physical location on the hd. Yes, I know this, but not my grandmother =) (the favourite 'user' at the list as far as I could understand =) ) -- Stian Søiland Work toward win-win situation. Win-lose Trondheim, Norway is where you win and the other lose. http://www.soiland.no/ Lose-lose and lose-win are left as an exercise to the reader. [Limoncelli/Hogan] _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability