RE: folders

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

<rant> you asked for it :) ( I wont be meen )
as to the gmc team statement, right click on your desktop, go to new....
DIRECTORY, there is no folder. therefore i would surmize that the gmc team
was thinking directory and not folder ....
the gmc team correctly labeled the directory a directory :)

like you said, you can represent a directory with different icons...
it has been chosen to represent a directory with the "folder" looking
icon...

(also note the icon on your desktop called "Home directory")

It is more what is shown with text that is important then what it looks
like...
If it says new folder, they will call it a folder... 
if you call it new directory, people will call it a directory...
it happened between 3.1 and 95, 
and it can be fixed from 95 to unix :)
</rant>

bin fun ranting with u :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	BASS, Ned* [SMTP:nbass@shl.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 30, 1999 3:08 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: folders
> 
> > 
> > DIRECTORY DIRECTORY DIRECTORY....
> > there .... folder=bad :)
> > 
> 
> I know this is a stupid point to debate, but since you brought it up...
> 
> <RANT> 
> If folder=bad, perhaps a different icon image should be used to represent
> directories.  However, when a user runs gmc, what they see are images of
> folders.  Therefore, it makes sense to say to a user, "click on the
> folder...", which is less ambiguous (to a non-technical user) than ,
> "click
> on the directory..."  Isn't the purpose of a graphical user interface that
> users can think in terms of physical objects rather than obscure computer
> terminology?  Directory is not exactly an obscure term, but I should not
> be
> corrected for referring to it in the context of the GUI. 
> 
> I know it hurts the ears when "folder", and other terms used by the
> Windows
> GUI, are used with UNIX/X Window, but the gmc developers chose to adopt
> that
> metaphor.  If they chose to use pickles to represent directories, then I
> would use the term pickle. 
> </RANT>
> 
>:)
> 
> Ned