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Re: default filemanager
by Richard Van Den Boom on Saturday 24/Feb/2007, @11:09

My wife is everything but a power user. She's an animator, having graduated from an art school, and she has no experience whatsoever with a computer. She had no difficulty at all browsing the web and managing her files with Konqueror, without any other input from me than the ones needed to understand what's a directory and what's a file, things you will always have to understand, whatever the file manager.
Most people only copy/paste, create new, double-click to open a file in the appropriate app and move files and directories by drag and drop.
They can manage easily any file manager as long as they find these options easily (which is the case with Konqueror). They will juste discard other options at first. Having the other options visible is not really an hindrance as far as I've seen and sometimes, it allows the most adventurous beginners to actually try the options they wouldn't even know to exist otherwise.
The speed issue can be an argument, but on a recent computer, I don't find Konqueror's speed a trouble.

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Re: default filemanager
by illogic-al on Sunday 25/Feb/2007, @07:21

> She's an animator, having graduated from an art school, and she has no experience whatsoever with a computer.

That's how I know you're a) LYING, b) know nothing about "art school" and c) Probably don't have a wife.

Cheers.

P.S. They use macs a lot. Some institutions (non-universities mostly) even use PCs in the animation studios when they want to live dangerously.

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