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Re: Not Ready.
by Morty on Tuesday 15/Nov/2005, @15:36

Leo:
"it is a huge step backwards from standard paths."

"I really don't understand why we can't let the distro mount the camera under /media/camera or whatever and open that dir in konqueror when a camera is plugged in. Would make everything much more consistant."

LB:
"in the media:/-view it's impossible to view the dvd-content (files) in Konqueror. to be honest this is quite annoying."

I can't say anything other than I agree with Leo and LB, the only thing actually achieved by trying to abstract the regular Unix paths with this are making everything less consistent. And having to do lots of work hunting all the different kind of use cases and make them work. And rather than creating better usability, it only creates a inconsistent mess. Introducing another naming scheme for the users to learn. And it's at best only marginally better usability wise, and even useless for legacy applications. IMHO the whole idea should have undergone a real usability review, with lots of why's asked.

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