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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Directory vs. Folder? Post 302605537 by drl on Wednesday 7th of March 2012 04:59:28 PM
Old 03-07-2012
Hi.

I'd guess that folder had its origins in the desktop metaphor. Not from Windows, that GUI came after the Macintosh. The Xerox PARC lab invented the metaphor, but it was not popularized until it was adopted by Apple. I suppose there might be an even more obscure implementation, but again, not popularized like the Macintosh Desktop.

Some support for my guess at Desktop metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I usually use the term directory ... cheers, drl
 

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desktop-file-validate

DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)				      General Commands Manual					  DESKTOP-FILE-VALIDATE(1)

NAME

       desktop-file-validate - Validate desktop entry files

SYNOPSIS

       desktop-file-validate [--no-warn-deprecated] [--warn-kde] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

       The desktop-file-validate program is a tool to validate desktop entry files according to the Desktop Entry specification 1.0.

       The  specification  describes  a  file format to provide information such as name, icon and description for an application. Such a file can
       then be used as an application launcher and to display the application in the applications menu.

       For information about the Desktop Entry specification, see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec.

       The desktop entry files are commonly called desktop files.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --no-warn-deprecated
	      Do not warn about usage of deprecated items that were defined in previous versions of the specification.

       --warn-kde
	      Warn about usage of KDE extensions to the specification. This includes the use of the KDE Desktop Entry group, of the  ServiceTypes,
	      DocPath,	Keywords, InitialPreference, Dev, FSType, MountPoint, ReadOnly, UnmountIcon keys, or of the Service, ServiceType and FSDe-
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BUGS

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SEE ALSO

       desktop-file-edit(1) desktop-file-install(1)

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