Home folder?

[Alexander Kellett]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:38:35PM +0200, Craig Drummond wrote:
> > > OK. But why does "Home Directory" (the previous version) sound ok - but
> > > "Home Folder" not?
> > 
> > it just plain sounds wrong.
> 
> Why? When "Home Directory" sounded OK????? If you're writing a UI guide and
> you're telling a user to browse into a folder, whats wrong with "browse into
> your Home Folder". As I said *all* others are called "folder"...

home directory is defacto.
home folder i've never heard.

sounds good after saying it
to myself several hundred 
times though.

it just sounded akward from
my pov. i don't really care
about the correctness pov.

but, as david pointed out
to me, "go home" just sounds
rude. so. i'm okay with
"home folder" in some cases.
but half of the time just
"home" can probably 
be used.

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