Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:28:10 05/24/02
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On May 23, 2002 at 17:14:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 23, 2002 at 16:03:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >>But not Linux users/developpers. Linux users/developpers care more about >>features than about useability. >> > > >Actually the two are connected very carefully. > Well yes, they are. But sometimes things are connected reciprocally. :) Really, I can't understand you guys. Here's my proposal: (1) The underlying filesystem is case-sensitive. This is practical for people who work in the shell. It doesn't break packages containing files "INSTALL" and "install". The great 'trick' with 'Makefile' and 'makefile' works. All sorts of things which are better suited for the, dunno the term.. geeks? [anyone with a better word? :)] (2) The "Open File" GUI dialogs etc are NOT case-sensitive. For example (I refuse to use the shortcut 'ie'. :p) if you type 'ccc' in the filedialog, this will match all files 'CCC*', 'ccc*', 'CcC*' and whatnot. the underlying filesystem doesn't have to be case-insensitive to implement this at all. Most people who work with the GUI (as opposed to the shell) don't type complete filenames anyway, but mainly use them the way I described above. Wouldn't this make the Bob's of the world and the Christoph's of the world happy? SaRgOn
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