"Folder" or "Directory"?

[Craig Drummond]

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:47:36AM +0200, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> > You have another vote for naming it all "folder" - it is way more
> consist
> ent. 
> > And indeed KDE is an abstraction to the OS, that is what we are working
> o
> n 
> > all the time - to present something to the user, so that he/she can use
> t
> he 
> > computer without the need to know the OS. 
> 
> A folder can be any grouping of documents, virtual or not, while a
> directory is indeed closely tied to the underlying OS. 
> 
> So what would "New Folder" do in my Maildir? Would it make a new Maildir
> folder with cur/ new/ tmp/ directories? Or would it just create one
> directory? Naming different things the same way can be confusing as well.
> Perhaps Konq should query a database which dirs are handled in which
> context
> and actually create a complete maildir folder in a Maildir. Now that would
> be consistent, although still confusing.

I would expect it to create a standard "folder"/"directory" - as konqueror
has no idea as to the contents of that folder. It only becoames a "maildir"
folder when used/created by a mail aware app. The "New Folder" option is *not*
labled "New Mail Folder"

> 
> Rob

Craig.

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