Re: User-Friendly Names

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

Hey,

Have you checked out GNOME 2 yet? We've made huge changes in this area -
to a point where we've renamed some of the applications on the
commandline [although not nautilus nor evolution], and made significant
improvements in the GNOME menus.

			Try it and see,

				Glynn ;)


On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:40, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> For Gnome to really compete against Windows, the names of components on 
> the desktop should be more descriptive. For example, i keep forgetting 
> what Evolution does. I'm just studying Gnome, but I thought I should point 
> this out before the exotic names became a habit.
> This follows the path that Unix has been taking since the beginning - too 
> much jargon. For example, nobody seems to know what "dired" means.
> The non-descriptive names may seem interesting, but people who just want 
> to use a computer to get their work done will appreciate names like "file 
> Manager" instead of "Nautilus."
> John
> 
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