* Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> [06-25-20 18:12]:
> On 6/25/20 1:55 PM, Pascal Obry wrote:
> > Le jeudi 25 juin 2020 à 13:48 -0400, Jason Polak a écrit :
> >> Here "Import" really means just open the folder.
> > 
> > No, it really means "import" as the pictures are indeed added as
> > references into the database. The "import" as in say Python really
> > means the same think, make it available, bring it "there" for being
> > workable.
> 
> Think about this from a non-developer perspective.  If I'm using a 
> spreadsheet, and I import a CSV
> file, I'm actually making a copy of it, not simply referring to it.  There 
> are ways of creating a
> reference, such that the spreadsheet is updated when the reference is, but 
> they're not called
> "import".  But even from a developer perspective, if I'm doing database work, 
> I think of data import
> as import by value, not by reference.
> 
> > I would certainly see "open the folder" as far more confusing.
> 
> But that's exactly what it does, if one looks at it from the standpoint of a 
> file manager (Dolphin,
> Finder, what have you).

and dt is *definitely* not a file manager nor does it pretend to be such.

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