On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Piotr Szyma?ski wrote: [...] > > Which brings up the inevitable question: what is the status of the > > directory -> folder transition? Any chance that we are going to see this in > > 3.1? > So in our translations we should get rid of directories in favor of folders? I > have never heard about this idea, but I will be having much free time on 1-6 > of May and I could replace dirs with folders if you want to.
Calm down, Piotr :-) I don't think such change requires respective changes in our translations. It's up to the team to decide whether to use only folders and folder/directory duel. And I think we should stick to the latter. Just to reiterate my point of view (which has been discussed here a couple of times): directory: physical space on disk or an entry in filesystem table folder: visualization of the above, sth the user interacts with in konqueror or sees on his/her desktop, in broader sense also all virtual, mail etc. folders. "New folder" makes perfect sense in RMB menu on desktop (because as a result user sees a new 'folder' on the desktop) but "directory" seems a choice better in all lower-level operations (you aren't going to change 'cd' into 'cf', are you?). Regards, Jacek Stolarczyk -- jstolarz at kde.org Coordinator of Polish translations of KDE
