Have they given up?

[Trevor Smith]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 08:46:09 -0400, Jonathan B. Bayer wrote:

>Now, the object orientation in the WPS is cool and nice and geeky, but
>for 90% of the people out there it just doesn't matter.  They just want
>a way to start their programs, and do some simple navigation.  For that

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?

>90% both KDE and Gnome already have all the functionality they need.

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.


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