Re: User-Friendly Names

[Christophe Fergeau <christophe fergeau mipsys com>]

Please read
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names
before reinventing the wheel

Christophe

Le ven 20/09/2002 à 16:36, Benjamin Kahn a écrit :
> Why not make the displayed name be the application name followed by the
> generic name?  Thus Evolution would become:
> 
> Evolution Groupware Suite (or whatever)
> and Galeon would be:  Galeon Web Browser.
> 
> Alternatively, it could be Generic Name (Application Name) so:
> 
> Groupware Suite (Evolution)
> Web Browser (Galeon)
> 
> The reason is that, for new users, it's confusing to see so many brand
> names.  (Gimp, Galeon, Evolution, Pan, GnuCash, etc.)  They don't want
> to think about multiple web browsers and IM clients and Email programs. 
> However, when they become more experienced and they become more familiar
> with the brand names, they want to be able to choose which applications
> they can run.  We shouldn't make that hard.
> 
> (In the UNIX world, there are a few really famous brands already: 
> StarOffice and Mozilla.  Would anyone argue that the menu items for
> these applicaitons should be: Office Suite and Web Browser?)
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 10:14, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, 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
> > > 
> > 
> > So, evolution would become 'Messaging Client' or 'Ximian Messaging Client' ?
> > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
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> > 
> > 	Sander
> > 
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> > 
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