Re: Word experts to the bridge, please
- From: Bernard Peek <bap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 16 Mar 2007 18:07:28 GMT
On 2007-03-16, Marc Wilson <agent-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
FWIW, I don't think that "folders" are a problem. It's a metaphor that
people can understand. If you're being pedantic about it, why is the
screen area called a "desktop"? It's just as artificial- and if your
desktop were vertical, all the "folders" would slide off it.
I spent some time training people who had never seen a computer close-up.
They seemed to understand the desktop metaphor reasonably well.
I wish they'd taken the metaphor a level further, to be honest. You could
have folders inside filing cabinets. I suppose you could do that yourself,
with appropriate icon changes....
You could but that metaphor breaks down when you go one step further. You
find folders within a filing cabinet but rarely folders within folders
within folders....
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