<to...@tuxteam.de> writes: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 09:12:45AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Loris Bennett wrote: >> > What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it seems >> > fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an old hanging >> > folder icon in their file browsers. >> >> tomas writes: >> > This is Microsoft jargon. >> >> It comes from the Xerox "desktop metaphor". The idea was to hide scary >> technical jargon behind familiar office jargon. > > Yup -- Wikipedia says either Xerox or SRI.
Personally I don't see "directory" as being more scary or technical than "folder". They are both words from the pre-computer age which have been repurposed, just as the term "computer" now no longer refers to a human who performs computations. -- This signature is currently under constuction.
