Re: The Future of Nautilus: Show the filesystem

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 12:21 +0100, Hylke Bons wrote:
> On 24 June 2010 12:15, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>         OSX finder does show the filesystem, but its not called that.
>         Its called
>         "Macintosh HD", "<name of computer>" or similar things.
>         However, by
>         default they do hide "unix stuff" (like /usr, /bin, etc) in
>         the
>         filesystem by placing .hidden files in the root.
> 
> Which makes it a whole lot friendler.
> Presented as a device it makes more sense.

Of course, it doesn't quite help you e.g. describe to a user how to go
to /var/log if you don't know the name of the root in the UI...


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