There is an alternative to dumbing down the file system, that's wisen-up the user. From a novice point of view I suggested something like this in this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168642 All the information's available, all the tools are available: 'tool-tips'; Notes tab in Gnomes Properties dialogue. Just populate the Notes with useful educational information about the file system which by default displays as a 'tool-tip' over various elements of the file system (when it becomes annoying and redundant comment the Notes out, or some such, so they go away). M. Bryan Livingston wrote: > Do away with the standard unix directory heirarchy. It's archaic, > non-intuitive, non-internationalized and dangerous from an application > management perspective. > > This would be a massive change to the entire system, primarily > consisting of creating some standard env variables that point to > standard directories. Also a switch to application directories would > be done. > > A linux distribution has been built around this idea and has been > successfull at working out the technical details. It's called > GoboLinux and you can find out more about it here: > http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance They have a piece on > common conserns about the idea here: > http://www.gobolinux.org/index.php?page=doc/articles/clueless > > This would take big steps in both usability and internationalization, > which are both top goals for Fedora. I'm hoping that the Fedora > leadership is serious enough about pushing the state of the technology > that they will seriously consider such an idea. It will have to > happen eventually in my opinion. > > This is done on the windows world, and is one aspact that makes > windows easier to use and more flexible than Fedora. There are 12 env > variables on my win xp system that point to directories for various > things. > -- Morgan Read NEW ZEALAND <mailto:mstuffATreadDOTorgDOTnz> fedora: Freedom Forever! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview "By choosing not to ship any proprietary or binary drivers, Fedora does differ from other distributions. ..." Quote: Max Spevik http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220
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