Re: User-Friendly Names

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Christophe,
Thanks. This is what I was looking for. I'm glad that Gnome is getting 
away from the jargon that has hampered the acceptance of Unix and  
Linux. 
John
On 20 Sep 2002, Christophe Fergeau wrote:

> 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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