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[James Richard Tyrer]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:48, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> ...
> 
>>Apparently, I wasted considerable time trying to discuss the $HOME vs.
>>"My Files" issue.  It was informative; I found out a lot about lame
>>excuses and rationalizations -- about how reactionary some KDE people are.
> 
> 
> See it this way: there was a discussion, 

I said _trying_ to discuss.  I don't think that I succeeded.  I didn't 
see a discussion.  What I saw was a lot of rationalizations and what is 
technically called "group think".

Did anyone actually offer any reason that directing completely new users 
to the $HOME directory as the place to store their documents was a good 
idea.

Did anyone actually offer anything to support the contention that 
completely new users understand what $HOME is?

All I say was what can be reduced to: "We should use Home because it is 
Home.  To an engineer (trained to be rational) that is nonsense.

I hope that this is a usability issue, but nobody in development listens 
to the usability people -- starts to sound like a corporation. :-\

-- 
JRT

Retired engineer willing to work for free. :-)