"Folder" or "Directory"?

[Andras Mantia]

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On Friday 17 October 2003 17:13, Craig Drummond wrote:
> I'd be happy to hear your reasons.

Here are my reasons why I'm using directories and not folders:
- - I learned this way. Before Windows 95 I haven't heard about folders...
- - the directory handling commands and function all have "dir" in their names. 
mkdir & friends.
- - Norton/Midnight/whatever Commander calls them directories
- - Directory Opus has the directory in it's name...
- - directories = folder and files = papers feels strange to me. I can't make 
such a connection between them. How can a database file be a paper? How can a 
zip/tgz file be a paper? It may contain files and directories...
- - in many languages file doesn't mean paper, or anything similar. There was 
the German example, and also in Hungarian we either call it "file", 
"fájl" (the phonetic transcription of the English word) or "állomány", which 
means more a general entity and not a paper at all. What makes sense in 
English may not make sense in other languages.

Folder name in KMail seems OK to me, as there we are dealing with mails and 
those can be organized in folders in every place of the Earth. ;-)

And about icons: a separate directory icon may make sense and would solve your 
problem while keeping the original name of directories. It would me also much 
less work than replacing every "directory" occurrence in KDE and in all the 
translations. 

Sincerely, I'm fine even with the current icon.

Andras


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