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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Clipart Dialog II
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-10-25 2:19:43
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On Thursday 24 October 2002 03:16, Dirk Schönberger wrote:
> > > And since that is the main usage of the dialog I'm
> > > not sure why you think they should be seen as different.
> >
> > they have different tasks. for instance, the cipart dialog hides the
> > filesystem completely.
>
> But are the clipart categories not some kind of special case virtual file
> system? I.e. like the "desktop" is some special case irtual file system,
> with another root than the container file system.

power users and programmers may very well see the similarities. to the 
majority of users, hierarchical file systems are very abstract and difficult 
to use. trying to use such a concept as a metaphore for another task (picking 
clip art from a list) is really pushing the envelope.

metaphores are supposed to be simpler/more obvious, not more difficult and 
obtuse =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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