Re: [TSVN] Installation problem

At 22:09 05/11/2004 +1030, you wrote:

>I would not regard myself as a "stupid, lazy person" put perhaps others might.

I think we must admit the possibility... :-) Stefan is of course a nasty
foreigner, so we should expect his rudeness.

>While I now know what is meant by this piece of jargon I still find it
>interesting as I viewed a process such as bash, dos etc as a shell and
>Windows Explorer as what would be viewed in Linux/Unix terms as simply
>another file manager. However a quick Google search reveals that the term
>"shell extension" has now been appropriated to mean Windows Explorer
>extension.

For some value of 'now'. AFAIK Shell Extensions have been called that for
about ten years (at least since Win95 was in development)

>So from my perspective I think I would have found it useful if "Windows
>Explorer extension" was used rather than "Shell integration", and perhaps
>have recognised the image a bit better if it had looked less cluttered,
>and had the familiar Explorer look, with only some icon overlays.

I'll agree it's cluttered, and the fact that the context (i.e. right-click)
menus appear to join the top of the window is rather confusing. It is
captioned 'A sample of the explorer view integration.' though, which is
very close to your preferred terminology.

I'm afraid, though, that I don't think we should abandon the expression
'shell extension'. This has the following virtues:

1. It's widely understood, particularly so among TSVN's likely audience.
2. It's established over a very long time.
3. It's the proper name for a shell extension.
4. We'll have achieved an educational bonus if a few more people learn the
proper name of a shell extension after (or even better, before) installing
TSVN.

Cheers,

Will

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Received on Fri Nov 5 12:58:11 2004