Re: directory & folder

[Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com>]

Agreed, one-hundred-percent.

--- Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de> wrote:
> Salam,
> 
> This is really an important discovery I made and which I want to share
> with you.
> Normally I translated directory and folder to the same noun: dalil. But
> recently when browsing through the gnome technical terms docs, I found
> that directory means a virtual folder which is not "drawn" in an app or
> on the desktop for eg. when an app points to a directory to indicate
> that it can't be spawned, whereas a folder is physical and it is that
> Icon you see which you open or that folder you have your mails in etc...
> mostly this term is used in Office apps like Evo or gedit, recently it
> is also used in nauti etc...
> So I want to suggest you here to use:
> 
> dalil for directory
> 
> and
> 
> mujallad for folder.
> 
> any comment/discussion would be appreciated till we get that QAC
> working...
> 
> yours
> Arafat
> 
> 
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