[RFC] One ioslave to rule them all...

James Richard Tyrer tyrerj at acm.org
Fri Jul 1 10:36:57 CEST 2005


Alexander Neundorf wrote:
  > I have here in system:/
> -Home
> -Remote places
> -Storage media
> -Trash  (all locations until here)
> -Settings (no location, but actions).
> 
> IMHO either remove Settings or add Applications. IMO having apps there would 
> be cool. Having system:/ as home url would provide a simple starting point. 
> Easy to manage files, to manage medias, and to start applications. What more 
> does the user need ?

One thing which the user doesn't need is: "Home".  It should be replaced 
with: "Documents" although I think that it could use a better name (I 
call mine "USR Home").  There is nothing in the $HOME directory that a 
user needs to access except when doing administration tasks.

If you have your "Documents" directory contain ONLY directories this 
would work quite well.  You don't want to have it function as: "My 
Documents" but rather as the base directory for various document 
folders.  So, it has a directory: "Documents" which is why I said that 
it needs a better name.

I would add: "Applications" since it is just the Menu.

I would keep: "Settings" since some users prefer it to the Control Center.

I also think that what is displayed in: "Storage Media" could use some 
work.  I have:

	A:
	B:
	CD-ROM
	Zip

Which are fine.

AND SEVENTEEN HD partitions!  Users don't need that.  Even I don't need 
that since I can't remember which is which without reading my" "fstab". 
  Since all of the HD partitions are supposed to be mounted in the file 
system, isn't it enough to have one HD icon for the "/" and one for 
$HOME?  Yes, $HOME is OK here since you do need it from time to time.

I don't see even a dozen icons as too many in "System:/" so there is 
room to add more if they are important.

-- 
JRT





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