"Folder" or "Directory"?

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Thursday 16 October 2003 14:45, Craig Drummond wrote:
> > The AmigaOS uses drawers. Also I think there are icon sets that use
> > drawers
>
> Atari TOS had file-cabinets representing the disk-drives, adn then fodlers
> for folders, and "paper" for files.
>
> >  to
> > represent directories. In fact having files whithin folders is a strange
> > concept in itself.
>
> Why? Files are represented as pictures of paper (with an icon) - and
> folders often have paper inside. The fact is that *most* OS's use the term
> "Folder". Anyway, my argument was that they should use the same term if
> they are to use the same icon. There may be different icon sets with
> "drawers" for folders - but the fact is that KDE's standard icon is a
> folder. Doesn't the fact that konqueror has the option to create a new
> directory, and then uses a "folder" to represent this, not seem silly?
>
> > Luciano
>
> Craig.

In any case, consider the extra work translator will have to do for this 
change... as a translator, I'd much prefer such changes, if necessary, to be 
done after the KDE3.2 release.

Luciano

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