Urgh, yes. I love the way the writer *assumes* that everyone loves it when the computer interface is a methaphor for a real-life system (nearly a direct quote), and that if something breaks the metaphor the user's head will explode.
I want my computer to be a *computer*, and do things that a computer does which a wodge of papers in a drawer can't do. And the whole book/filing cabinet thing is equally retarded - I think of websites as websites, and of my filesystem as a filesystem. And they are really the same thing, and what is good for browsing one is usually also good for browsing the other.
I don't use a graphical file browser at all, since I find command-line file manipulation to be much easier for complex tasks, but if I did, I would want a file browser which works the way that I like my web browser to work - something which opens things in the same window by default, but which allows you to open something in a new window as an easy option.
The only difference is that in a web browser I want everything in tabs in the same window, whereas in a file browser I would want separate windows, so that I could drag things between them.
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Urgh, yes. I love the way the writer *assumes* that everyone loves it when the computer interface is a methaphor for a real-life system (nearly a direct quote), and that if something breaks the metaphor the user's head will explode. I want my computer to be a *computer*, and do things that a computer does which a wodge of papers in a drawer can't do. And the whole book/filing cabinet thing is equally retarded - I think of websites as websites, and of my filesystem as a filesystem. And they are really the same thing, and what is good for browsing one is usually also good for browsing the other. I don't use a graphical file browser at all, since I find command-line file manipulation to be much easier for complex tasks, but if I did, I would want a file browser which works the way that I like my web browser to work - something which opens things in the same window by default, but which allows you to open something in a new window as an easy option. The only difference is that in a web browser I want everything in tabs in the same window, whereas in a file browser I would want separate windows, so that I could drag things between them.