Re: Terminology: Perhaps in the future switch launcher -> Shortcut

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

dave bordoley <bordoley msu edu> writes:
> I'm not sure if this actually the right list to bring this up, but i
> thought i'd suggest that in the future, post gnome 2.0, that we switch
> from using the term launcher for .desktop files in the panel and
> nautilus to shortcuts. This is the term used by windows for similar
> functionality, and sounds a little nice in my opinion. I filed bug 81210
> with the hig on this.

Don't we use "shortcut" in the menus to mean keybindings?

> Also related the current method for creating launchers (shortcuts hehe)
> is kind of confusing and difficult. Are there any plans to make more of
> a druid for creating .desktop files in the future. It would be nice if
> this was included in a more general gnome lib, so that it could be
> better integrated into nautilus.

We do need to replace the ditem edit widget.

Havoc