Re: Word experts to the bridge, please
- From: "Amethyst Deceiver" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:53:48 -0000
Bernard Peek wrote:
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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