James A. Donald wrote: > David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: >> If the filesystem is a graph, then the tools need to support it as >> a graph. > > Yet the windows file system is an arbitrary graph, and tools to > manipulate it manipulate trees.
They manipulate graphs (bugs notwithstanding), showing the tree of explored paths within the graph. >> Windows explorer is hardly a good example of a well-designed UI for >> browsing *or* manipulating a filesystem with symlinks. It can't even >> expand a symlink without throwing up some modal error dialog. > > This is not my experience. I have a bunch of shortcuts in my documents > directory that point to folders and web pages without any regard to tree > relationship, and I click on one of them every few minutes. Doesn't work for me; it must be different between Vista installations. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
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