Re: GtkFileChooser API work [getting OT]
- From: Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>
- To: iain <iain prettypeople org>, Ryan McDougall <ryan mcdougall telusplanet net>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GtkFileChooser API work [getting OT]
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:23:51 +0200
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 19:09, iain wrote:
> if given the chance I'd think .gnome-cd is much more understandable than
> .etc/gnome-cd, given that I first of all have to go through the process
> of thinking "What the buck does .etc mean?"[1]
And then the people who complain about home folder bloat will jump in and
flame everyone down...
> Then why don't we name them .a, .b, .c, .d, and so on?
> Afterall, people aren't supposed to see them, so why waste valuable
> diskspace on multiple letter names when one character will do?
I think it should be rephrased as "only meaningful to power users or
programmers". To me, .etc *has* a meaning. .a does not.
Althought there is an exception. A: and C: aren't exactly intuitive either.
Yet people still accept these totally unintuitive system identifiers.
Keep this in mind: the only thing intuitive is a nipple. Everything else is
*learned*. You only think .etc is confusing until you've learned it. Win95
confused the hell out of me the first time I used it.
> iain
> [1] Incidently what the buck does /etc mean? And /var for that
> matter...oh yeah, and /usr
etc: Etcetera (configuration files)
var: Variable data, like the printer spooler
usr: Unix System Resources
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