| ??? 05/10/07 23:35 Read: times |
#139024 - Really? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Peters said:
For example, something called "My Documents" appears on the Desktop, although it's not a link (in the Unix sense) nor is it an alias. (And you can change the name displayed on the Desktop but it's still internally called My Documents.) I agree that renaming it doesn't really switch what it's called, but I always considered it a "link." Perhaps in some technical way it's not, but when I double-click on "My Documents" it would show me the files that were in my "My Documents" directory. But that's not really the "home directory." On standard XP installs, user home is really C:\Documents and Settings\mylogin which is broken because it has spaces in the name. And in that user home directory one can find both Desktop AND My Documents (but one doesn't find My Documents listed in Desktop ...) I find that to not be a bad idea. You have a "real" home directory under which there are a lot of directories related to that user, but most of them are "internals." A directory version of your desktop, application-specific data, etc. In Unix, the same thing is stored below the user subdirectory so the home directory is completely cluttered with lots of low-level directories that are only (usually) hidden by having them called "dot something." I guess it's a matter of preference. I'm used to the Unix way of doing things, but I personally think the Windows way is probably better. Certainly for the typical user. If the typical user is going to their "home" directory, they're probably interested in looking for their music, documents, images, etc. and not "dot something" files that, if tweaked, may mess up how their applications works. Regards, Craig Steiner |
