RE: Spaces in file and directory names.

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

> As long as you can get into the directory command line ( and the filename
> completion works for fast changing of directories) it is not much of a
> problem.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeff Garzik [SMTP:jgarzik@pobox.com]
> Sent:	Monday, December 14, 1998 12:51 PM
> To:	jrb@redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: Spaces in file and directory names.
> 
> jrb@redhat.com wrote:
> > > The directory hierarchy that is visible in the file manager
> > > application has several directories with spaces in them: My Documents,
> > > My Sounds and Spread Sheets.  Considering that spaces in filenames may
> > > be chief in a range of silly ideas that have come out of MicroSoft I
> > > would hope that the gnome project would not follow this lead.
> 
> > I personally don't see anything terribly wrong with spaces in filenames,
> > and I would hardly call them a MicroSoft invention, nevertheless, those
> > directories were created on the fly as part of a demo here at the labs,
> and
> > are not part of any GNOME standard.
> 
> It will be hard to break Mac and Win users of the spaces-in-filenames
> habit, and we certainly want to get those users running GNOME instead
> of some other OS :)
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
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