Have they given up?

[Steve Lamb]

On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 09:59:58AM -0300, Trevor Smith wrote:
> And have their OS keep track of files' locations so when they move
> something, say with drag and drop to another partition, it continues
> to work without them needing to think about it.
 
> OS/2 does that. Does/will KDE?

    It doesn't have to.  OS/2 doesn't do it.  I move a program it is broken
because it has drive letters hard coded everywhere.  With Linux there are no
drive letters to worry about.  Since it is all on a VFS the path remains the
same even though the physical drive underneath may change, even to the point
of not being on the same machine at all.
 
> If you're saying that 90% of the people are content to have their OS
> break every time they move a file (or nearly every time), then you
> are correct. MS Windows has proven this fact in market conditions.

    So has OS/2.  Your point?
 
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