Re: User-Friendly Names

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

Seth,
Thanks. I do think that the name of the Evolution suite should be 
changed. It takes my mind on a dead-end path. When I see Evolution I 
immediately winder: evolving toward what? Or perhaps, evolving from 
what, since evolution, like love, is supposed to be blind.
John
On 25 Sep 2002, 
Seth Nickell wrote:

> 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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