Sep 20, 2008 12:11
15 yrs ago
2 viewers *
English term
Folder List navigation pane (see ?)
English
Other
Computers (general)
LINGUISTICS / order
Folder List navigation pane
After you add the folder to Public FolderFavorites, in the Folder List navigation pane, right-click the copy of the folder under Favorites ...
I understand this is a Folder List that you can find in the navigation pane. But WHY is it written in this way, I mean, the ORDER. Shouldn't it be navigation pane Folder List? Any explanation as regards this kind of structures, which are common in computing, would be welcome.
thanks in advance.
After you add the folder to Public FolderFavorites, in the Folder List navigation pane, right-click the copy of the folder under Favorites ...
I understand this is a Folder List that you can find in the navigation pane. But WHY is it written in this way, I mean, the ORDER. Shouldn't it be navigation pane Folder List? Any explanation as regards this kind of structures, which are common in computing, would be welcome.
thanks in advance.
Responses
2 hrs
orientalhorizon
Banking,law,commerce,engineering
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English, English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
4
Selected
right
First it's a navigation pane, or a window as Gary pointed out. Once you click open this pane, you'll see a list of folders, so you can browse (or navigate) through this list and select any folder as necessary. To sum up, it's a "navigation pane of folder list", to make it another way, it should be "folder list navigation pane". Hope this helps.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "many thanks"
+2
20 mins
because
when you go to the folder list you can then go the the sub folders and the sub- sub folders
So this is why it is called a navigation pane (plane) You are in a window (Pane) Ie; A smaller section of a window, from which you can navigate to or from.
You often see the words....Are you sure you wish to navigate away from this window. pop up on the Pc.
when you open a new doc in WORD, on the right side there is a navigation pane for templates.
So this is why it is called a navigation pane (plane) You are in a window (Pane) Ie; A smaller section of a window, from which you can navigate to or from.
You often see the words....Are you sure you wish to navigate away from this window. pop up on the Pc.
when you open a new doc in WORD, on the right side there is a navigation pane for templates.
2 hrs
"Folder List navigation pane" is correct.
As you understand, the navigation pane is a section of the window, so gramatically (if we forget about the meaning - just think about English grammar) it's pretty much the same as saying something like "folder list window". It's the window with the folder list. You can't say "window folder list" because that would be a list of "window folders" or folders which contain widows". Replace "window" with "navigation pane", and the grammar still has the same logic.
1 day 41 mins
Jennifer Levey
Chile
Chile
Native in English
&
English
Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
pecking order of adjectives in English
It is common practice in English, when there are several descriptors (adjectives, compund adjectives, noun phrases, etc.) in front of a noun, to put them in order starting with the most specific and ending with the most general.
In this case, 'pane' is the noun, qualified by two 'descriptors': 'folder list' and 'navigation'. Of those descriptors, 'folder list' is more specific than 'navigation', so it comes first (typically, there will be only one navigation pane showing a folder list, but there might be several navigation panes showing different kinds of navigation aids).
That said, the pecking order is not always obvious - a native English-speaker would refer to a 'fast red car' and not to a 'red fast car', although there's no obvious reason why 'fast' is more specific than 'red'.
In this case, 'pane' is the noun, qualified by two 'descriptors': 'folder list' and 'navigation'. Of those descriptors, 'folder list' is more specific than 'navigation', so it comes first (typically, there will be only one navigation pane showing a folder list, but there might be several navigation panes showing different kinds of navigation aids).
That said, the pecking order is not always obvious - a native English-speaker would refer to a 'fast red car' and not to a 'red fast car', although there's no obvious reason why 'fast' is more specific than 'red'.
Something went wrong...