On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:40 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (I don't think this says negative things about OLPC at all; children >> don't resist learning in this way.) > > Yet those Largo workers did somehow avoid learning about files and > folders when *they* were young, despite almost certainly being > exposed, nay *surrounded* by them. I don't think they "forgot" as > they grew up. I'm not sure "resisted learning" is the right > explanation, either.
I guess my opinion on this isn't very valuable, as I'm a known believer in the benefits of a journal-like UI, but anyway. My observations are that the troubles described by Federico's presentation linked above by Scott are the norm in users that haven't been strongly motivated to maintain a strong hierarchical organization of their files (coders in a shared repository, for example). I've been in the position of giving technical support to family members, university professors, misc office workers, etc and the "where are my files" problem is one of the most time consuming. I think the general sw industry has recognized this need and people have pushed this idea with acts (rather than with just words). Does this give a bit of credibility to our desire of giving kids a content addressable data repository? But I don't see nothing wrong with giving an alternative view on the raw filesystem. We just have to choose our priorities because we cannot work on everything we'd like to. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
