"Folder" or "Directory"?
Scott Wheeler
wheeler at kde.org
Mon Oct 20 16:59:55 BST 2003
On Saturday 18 October 2003 17:50, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> My reasoning is this:
[...]
Just another mostly irrelevant opinion -- I've always seen a "folder" as a
term referring to a logical grouping of items on the system, of which a
"directory" is a specialization of. A folder is just a grouping; a directory
is something that maps to the actual file system...
I see this as basically parallel to the differences between calling KMail
"Email Client" or "KMail" -- is it important to inform the user of the
specific type of folder we'll be creating? Do they care?
If say at some point we supported a dynamic meta data based way to view
information on the hard disk (a la Storage) would we want "Movies by
Kubrick" (a "folder") to be represented the same way as "/home" (a
directory)?
-Scott
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