On Ma, 01 sep 20, 15:53:17, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 06:48:22AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2020-09-01 at 04:29, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is > > > beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they? > > > > As I understand matters, it's an extension of the "desktop" metaphor. > > Yes, thanks for the reminder. My interjection was a bit... ironical. > I'm sometimes miffed by the idea that using kiddy language would make > computers more accessible. > > I think it's an antipattern, but of course anyone's mileage may vary. Having had to explain "computer stuff" to various people over the time (often older than me) I found the folder analogy to be easier to understand than the telephone directory analogy. It could also be a cultural thing: until 1990 only few households here even had their own telephone line and telephone directories were even rarer. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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