Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 09:13:50 05/24/02
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On May 24, 2002 at 11:51:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >It already does this. That was the point. If you want to use a GUI-based >file manager to locate files, just check the "ignore case sensitivity" box >and away you go. While I still get to use case sensitive filenames when >I want.. I think the file manager should be in the case-insensitivity mode by default. And maybe changable to case-sensitivity under Extras->Options->Settings->Preferences->Enable case-sensitivity. (hope you get the idea :) Keep in mind, that the average user is not that skilled, sometimes also is nervous because she is not very familiar with the computer and unsure about a lot of things. In these cases, having a lot of features is equal to not being useable. Not everyone is a power user. Let's take another example: installation of the OS (1) With Linux (I used LinuxPPC2000 I think, this may be different with other distributions) the installer asked me lots of questions about how many partitions I want, how big they should be, what path I would like to mount there etc (2) With OSX I simply chose one partition and clicked on Install, that's it. Of course it's nice to be able to use different partitions, but the average user won't need this. And I still can open the shell, mount other partitions and move user directories there, or the swap file. So I'm happy. And the average user is also happy because she didn't have to care about all these things. Now you're prolly saying that with Linux the user could simply take the default values and not think about it anymore. Well, that's true. But, for the average user, this was yet-another-question-I-didnt-understand. And if something doesn't work later, she will think that it was because she didn't answer some questions correctly while the install, and go back to Windows. (although maybe she just forgot to quote something or whatever) Summary: For power users, flexibility is almost always A Good Thing, but the average user, often it's A Bad Thing. Sargon PS. Everything I've said above is just my opinion. :)
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