Re: User-Friendly Names

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Hi John,

You'll be pleased to learn that the GNOME 2 HIG already addresses this.
Some applications like Evolution (actually, Evolution is the most
notable remaining unported application) are not GNOME 2 apps yet,
unfortunately. You can find the relevant section at:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/desktop-integration.html#application-menu-entries

GNOME 2 applications should add menu entries that contain a functional
description. When they represent a suite of items, menu entries should
be added per item in the suite (rather than a single item for the whole
suite).

So evolution would end up being, for example:

   Evolution Email
   Evolution Calendar
   Evolution Addressbook

Galeon already is:  

   Galeon Web Browser

Gnumeric already is:

   Gnumeric Spreadsheet

etc etc.

I hope this addresses your concern!

-Seth

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:40, 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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