Few people are going to understand library > app support or ~/Library/"Application Support when they see it.
But if they see "hard drive" they can look at the screen and see a hard drive icon, usually called Macintosh HD. If they click on that then, but not before, they can see a folder called Library. I'm fairly sure that it would make more sense to people if you wrote: Macintosh HD>Library or Hard Drive>Library.
I don't want to make a big deal of this. Even David Pogue, a writer I greatly admire, makes the reader learn the Unix pathway terminology in his Missing Manual books. He's right, and I had to learn it just like everyone else. I would like to see, in general, computers and software become easier to use, to demand less of the user who has little time or desire to learn what is required. It ought to be obvious and easy, requiring as little thought as possible, if you are going to make "a computer for the rest of us."
Last edited by deniro; 01/21/15 10:37 PM.
