Re: New to FC

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.redhat, in article
<ic1wnc5ti6.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan Espen wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) writes:

Oh, so Nautilus stole the term from microsoft who stole it from Apple
who stole it from Xerox? (Global-Pig was back in the early 1980s and
was running on a Xerox 6085 Daybreak - a 6 MHz 8086. Steve Jobs saw it
at PARC and ran with it.)

I say, show class. Prove to the world that "directory" is not
too hard a word for the average computer user.

Well, I suppose. But there's a problem.

[compton ~]$ grep -c folder /usr/man/man1/find.1
0
[compton ~]$ grep -c director /usr/man/man1/find.1
28
[compton ~]$

If you want to take it further...

[compton ~]$ find /usr/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man -type f -mindepth
2 | wc -l
4237
[compton ~]$ ^|^-exec zgrep -l folder {} \; |
find /usr/man /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man -type f -mindepth 2 -exec zgrep
-l folder {} \; | wc -l
70
[compton ~]$

So I've got 4200+ man pages on this system, and the word 'folder' only appears
on 70 of those - mainly those dealing with mail and TCL.

The nautilus people are pandering to the lowest common
denominator. Shame on them.

They're aiming for the windoze user who's having a hard enough time getting
their head around all the extra "stuff" that's available.

Old guy
.