tsquare opened this issue on Feb 17, 2011 · 138 posts
tsquare posted Sat, 05 March 2011 at 2:40 AM
Yes. This is it, here. Consistancy would be a plus.
Quote - People are missing the point.
This isn't about setting up a file system that everyone would switch over to. As has clearly been demonstrated, this simply is not going to happen.
It's about some consistency in the installation. What you do after that, however you want to reorganize it, is your own damn business. Which is exactly the situation as it stands right now, so you're not any further behind. The goal would be to provide some sort of logical basis, the raw material, as it were, for your later reorganization. If you want to put all your dress CR2s in one folder, knock yourself out. The point is that when you install, you know that what you just installed would have a certain organization so that you know where everything is. It doesn't matter if you like where it is or not; nothing prevents you from changing it.
Think of it like going into a supermarket. The vast majority of supermarkets look pretty much the same. Fresh vegetables and fruit are off on one side, the meat and dairy on another, there's an aisle where all the cereals are, so on and so forth.
Maybe you don't like the way it's organized. Maybe you'd organize the food in a different way, just like you do at home when you take the food there. But that's not the point. The point is that there's a pretty standard supermarket setup that allows a wide range of people to quickly locate what they need and then go off and do whatever they want with what they've got.
Same thing for department stores. There's a very good reason why the inside of a WalMart looks a lot like the inside of a Zellers looks a lot like the inside of a K-Mart looks a lot like the inside of a Target looks a lot like the inside of a Sears. They've adopted a standardized approach that allows the costumer to find things. I've been in department stores that didn't belong to a major chain, and didn't follow their type of layout, and it took me forever to find anything I was looking for because of their individualistic way of organizing things.