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Why directories are 'broken'Why directories are 'broken'Posted Oct 26, 2010 16:59 UTC (Tue) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545)In reply to: Why directories are 'broken' by epa Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)
"Arguably, it's not the folders model itself that is broken but rather Microsoft and friends who have broken it by obfuscating the directory hierarchy away from the user and making crappy filepickers in each application rather than a simple, usable file browser that's common to the whole desktop."
Amen!
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Why directories are 'broken' Posted Oct 26, 2010 20:25 UTC (Tue) by droundy (subscriber, #4559) [Link]
Alas, inkscape (and probably other programs) breaks things in much the same ways. It ignores its initial working directory, and instead maintains two distinct "working directories" for saving and opening, which are preserved across instances of inkscape and unaffected by the location of the file currently being edited.
Having recently used inkscape a bit, this was *very* frustrating. It'd be lovely if our GUI programs could use the "folder" approach nicely...
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