>Ferk wrote 2 hours ago: #70
>What if you want to give instructions to teach your friend?
>How would you tell him to go to his home folder?
- "Go to the folder that has your name"
>What if the vendor who installed the system to him chose
>some generic username to him? what if instead of "Mike"
>he put "Michael"? There won't be a consistent way to call it,
>how would he call it when he doesn't know that it's the "home" folder?
>he will call it "Mike's" folder? kinda weird.
- He'll call it the user's folder / the folder with the user's name on it
>We need a generic name for the folder so that it can be referred
>in a generic sense without knowing the username of the specific user account.
- N (where n = username)
>I vote for "User Home", or if you don't like white spaces call it
>"Userhome" (Username is also lacking the whitespace, isn't it?).
-This doesn't translate well at all: Hogar del Usuario / Nombre del usuario.
each session is a personalized experience. the person who logs in knows who he is and understands that a folder with his name on it is probably where all her or his things are. karmic solved this very well and i don't understand why it's still considered a papercut.
>Ferk wrote 2 hours ago: #70
>What if you want to give instructions to teach your friend?
>How would you tell him to go to his home folder?
- "Go to the folder that has your name"
>What if the vendor who installed the system to him chose
>some generic username to him? what if instead of "Mike"
>he put "Michael"? There won't be a consistent way to call it,
>how would he call it when he doesn't know that it's the "home" folder?
>he will call it "Mike's" folder? kinda weird.
- He'll call it the user's folder / the folder with the user's name on it
>We need a generic name for the folder so that it can be referred
>in a generic sense without knowing the username of the specific user account.
- N (where n = username)
>I vote for "User Home", or if you don't like white spaces call it
>"Userhome" (Username is also lacking the whitespace, isn't it?).
-This doesn't translate well at all: Hogar del Usuario / Nombre del usuario.
each session is a personalized experience. the person who logs in knows who he is and understands that a folder with his name on it is probably where all her or his things are. karmic solved this very well and i don't understand why it's still considered a papercut.