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SELinux Mailing ListRe: Desktop apps interoperability
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl_at_lkcl.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:05:33 +0100
yep - i know. i didn't say it was a "nice" solution. for "dummies" - the sorts of people who use MAC OS/X - directories are a massive confusional concept. think of the kinds of people who store 16,000 files in "My Documents" because they've never heard of creating folders. [and we won't talk about the person who spent 10 minutes each day paging down the same word document until they got to the end, okay? :) ] we are _privileged_ people who "understand" computers, graphical OSes, and such. it's vitally important to remember that there are people out there who:
so, whilst we all "love" to put documents where we "want", creating lovely structured directory hierarchies with symlinks to convenient places, the majority of users simply use what's put in front of them [and typically use or grok very little of even that]. and Apple put the "finder" in front of people, on MAC-OS/X, and they sodding love it, because it finds EVERYTHING that's useful to them. l. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.Received on Thu 31 Mar 2005 - 04:57:19 EST |
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |