I don't use GNOME, but...

Posted Jan 27, 2010 15:26 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: I don't use GNOME, but... by mjthayer
Parent article: Stormy Peters: What should the GNOME Foundation accomplish in 2010?

The problem is that UNIX systems have been calling directories "directories" since the beginning. The command to change directories is cd, not cf. The library function to open a directory is opendir, not openfolder. And it's mkdir, not mkfolder. Using the term "folder" introduces unnecessary inconsistency.