Not to contradict the strength of your "Eeeeeehhh !! Wrong !!", but I think there is much wrong with the *nix filesystem. The /home tree is a great idea, and probably the best thing about the filesystem, but it has much wrong with it usability wise from there... the /dev tree, while outstanding from the CLI and the development standpoint, ***SUCKS*** from a usability standpoint... the old convention of local vs. share is inconsistently applied, resulting in two separate trees for libraries, binaries, includes, etc... and even within the home directory, the flooding of it with hidden .files and even configuration folders that aren't hidden makes it nearly impossible to use the home directory as the base for a desktop environment... So while I too am not thrilled with the "My Computer" idea, I think GNOME captured the spirit of it without having to specify anything about the physical machine... it's really a "Start Here" point... I like Anders suggestions about expanding and centralizing the start here section in Nautilus... So, yeah, I think an "Eeeeeehh !! Wrong !!" is a bit much... -jag On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 02:46, "Miguel A. Arévalo" wrote: > Eeeeeehhh !! Wrong !! > > I'm sorry but there is no worst part on the Windows 95 Desktop than this > evil "My Computer" icon, this icon exists only because the Windows > filesystem is ill-designed for both end and admin users. An end user > should only know where his personal documents are stored, and "The Right > Thing" (tm) is using the complete desktop metaphore. The end user should > not even see there is a physical computer, because there are lots of > configurations that breaks this paradigm (X-terminals, distributed > filesystems, complete distributed operating systems, etc.) that will > never fit it. > > The UNIX filesystem (coupled with a good package manager, esp. dpkg & > apt) is the best hierarchycal filesystem in use now, and it is so > because it is very user friendly, but the end-user of the "system" part > (binaries, libraries, etc) are the admins and system software, no end > lusers should know the existence of /usr/lib nor /dev/hdb. > > Of course, the best filesystem for both the user and admins-software > would be an attributed filesystem, but, this is not UNIX nor POSIX so > we'll have to wait for another 20 years. > > Regards. > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > Usability gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -- --------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Adam Ginsberg Cellphone: 713.478.1769 Rice University '02 Email: joshg myrealbox com St. Mark's School of Texas '98 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ---------------------------------------------------------
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