KDE3 --> KDE4

[Charlie Kester]

On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 22:49:09 PDT Gary Kline wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 02:37:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:15:18 -0500, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Unless things have changed very recently, KDE4 is in its own directory
>> > folder.
>>
>> Terminology: the directory (is not a folder, and not a directory folder).
>> FreeBSD has directories, not folders. :-)
>>
>
>
>	Absolutely!  I don't want to sound like *that* much of a unix-bigot; but
>	here, i guess i am.  Isn't the word "directory" part of graphy
>	theory?  Or is it just "K&R theory" :-)

I'd always assumed it was a term borrowed from the telephone system that
was Bell Labs main concern.  

The list mapping names to telephone numbers (or vice versa) was called a
directory, as in "directory assistance".  

In Unix, the names are filenames and the numbers are inodes.