From kde-usability Sat Nov 25 16:25:32 2006 From: Maciej Pilichowski Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:25:32 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: Localised folders in /home/user (Documents and > Desktop) Message-Id: <200611251725.32450.macias () mat ! uni ! torun ! pl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=116447198716574 Hello, > > It's all about avoididing, and replacing concepts that relates to > > computers with things that relate to real world things, that more > > easily can be grasped by computer illiterate persons. > > KDE is full of links to these places. I don't see why a normal user > would care whether they're implemented as a seperate device or > mounted onto the filesystem. Normal -- not computer-geek? She/he does not care, that's the point. > Going up a level is exactly the same > as a user going up a level in Windows and ending up in My Computer. Nobody proved it is a good thing. Of course going up and down is ok (for "normal" user) as long as she/he is going within undertandable context. If she/he went so up that she/he ended in "my computer" it is similar to wake up in alice wonderland -- "where am I?". It is really confusing. There should be let's name it "end-points" -- if normal user works within "Documents" (one of end-points) voila, do what you want, but don't go to /home/user or /home or even worse / -- because once the user saw all those creatures like /dev/, /tmp/, /root she/he will panic and call it an error. For powerusers -- go where you want, no end-points, no limits. End-points (in my opinion) -- Documents, Home, all media devices but for each device (probably missed something). It is good thing to realize what _really_ normal user has to know to write a document or browse a web page. And remove all obstacles for her/him. That's a task for designers -- problem solved from the beginning, not by each end-user. Knowledge of Unix filesystem is not necessary to do all common tasks -- so better to hide it. have a nice day bye _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability