On 18-01-2007 at 12:28, Jan Engelhardt
wrote: Over the years, people have managed to keep their files together. UNIX: ~, as always. DOS: Dedicated folder on C:, or another drive. Win 4.x-6.x: My Documents. Why would we suddenly need search engines. People unable to label their files properly (putting them into the right-named directory as a bonus) are a lost case like their files.
Jan, It might be true that WE manage to do so. But the computer evolved from a Geek Device to a All-Around-Us-Machine. Even my Mum of almost 60 years is using these things now. She is proud to be able to use some simple things like Thunderbird and Firefox and to manage to write a letter from time to time. Ok, all her Docs of course are in My Documents (Win98), I did not convince her for a Linux.. My sister is there already. But my mum, after having saved this file, she would probably never have the idea to change the filename to something else than what Office suggests (so the first sentence of the letter). Usually not very helpful by refinding it... And usually, F3 in Explorer gives us the required help we need, as somehow we manage to find what she created. So: think further than the profs you meet all day long and try to understand the not so technical ones. They need supporting tools for their 'work' Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org