Re: Archive Generator -- a system tool?

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 09:52, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Rafal Hajdacki <hajdi pf pl> writes:
> > 
> > Please Havoc, separate RH system configuration tools from system menu.
> > There is too much items right now. And it is rather strange to have
> > system configuration tools and terminal in one menu.
> > 
> 
> I don't know what to call the config tools menu (and accessories only
> has about 3 things in it...). The config tools are mostly
> end-user-oriented, we already busted out "Server Settings" with apache
> conf and such, these tools are Display, Packages, Date&Time, etc.
> "System Settings"?

I was about to suggest "System Settings" when I read that :-)
Particularly if you already have "Server Settings" it would work well.
It also sets up good contrast with "Desktop Preferences", which may give
a hint to users as to what can be found in "Desktop Preferences" vs.
"System Settings" (whereas e.g. "System Preferences" would make the
difference between these two even less clear).

If "System Settings" gets put under "System Tools", it might be worth
considering dropping the word "System". Or maybe not.

I'm a little unhappy with "System" here, if I had to do it over again I
would consider using "Computer" instead. "System" is nice and fancy, but
its not quite as standard a word. So then you'd have "Computer Tools"
(which makes a *lot* more sense for describing the difference between
this and accessories), and "Computer Settings". Still, "Computer
Monitor" does sound a little weird, so I dunno. Maybe I'm just really
used to "System". I would like to understand the difference in
connotation between "System" and "Computer" here and also if/how the
hypothetical silent majority understands the word "System".

-Seth