On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:33:00PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
JOOI what do you call what most people commonly refer to as a desktop on your computer?
The screen!
Heh, to me the screen is the big lump of glass between me and my desktop ;) just goes to show how metaphors/semantics work with different people.
Not in general, my 'desktop' if you want to call the screen that doesn't show the contents of anything, it a space where I do computery sorts of things.
Hmmmn, mine does stuff. If I was to receive a support call saying my screen doesn't show the contents of anything I'd be asking the user to turn the computer on ;)
Also back to your original mail I think that choosing the name "filesystem" is better than labelling it "/" as most people will understand the concept of the "filesystem" better than what / is and it would mean that look and feel could be maintained across different
But it's not a general filesystem, it's one particular one. If it had said "root filesystem" or "root" I wouldn't have been so confused.
Aye, but I think the ideology is that many people don't know what the "root filesystem" or "root" is (this is certainly true for many desktop users of Unix/Linux that I have supported) and that if you know what root or / is then you will be the kind of person to click everything until it works :)
systems that may not have a root folder called / (i.e. Windows and its friends). I can't see that it would have taken that long to work out beyond clicking the button labelled Filesystem what it represented to someone familiar with Unix type file system layouts.
What took me a long time was to realise at all that that left hand window was where I could select the directory I wanted to go to.
Which window manager do you use? I'm guessing that it isn't gnome ;) I quite like the way the file manager works and being able to have bookmarks to various parts of the filesystem is handy as it saves me doing lots of point'n'drool^H^H^H^H^Hclick action.
Thanks Adam