Re: [gnome-love] patch to change tooltips for terminal emulator and help system

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u cs nott ac uk>]

jpg2 cec wustl edu wrote:

> > Some of the stuff Sun pointed out in their useability study seemed to me
> > to be simply due to a lack of familiarity with terminology - yes, some
> > terminology is obscure, but I see little point in simply duplicating
> > Windows terminology, because not everyone's familiar with that either,
> > and it's not necessarily any good anyway.
>
> "Command Prompt" isn't duplicating windows terminology--it's the most
> descriptive phrase I can think of to describe what it is you get when
> you press that launcher.  "Command Line" isn't bad either, though a
> prompt is really what you're getting.   "Terminal emulation program"
> has to go for a tooltip.  Yes, I know that's technically what it is
> that you are launching and in the terminal emulation program you're
> running a shell which gives you a command prompt, but that's neither
> here nor there.
Actually, "Command Prompt" is duplicating Windows - Windows NT/2000 to 
be precise (and, presumably XP as well). But I guess you're right - I'm 
just rather fond of the notion of dropping people in at the deep end. 
Although that's probably not a good thing for widespread use of GNOME. 
However, I don't particularly want GNOME to turn into a better-looking KDE.

> > Their points about the GDM dialog were pretty valid though.
>
> Most definitely.  I heard someone mention that he/she is tackling
> some/all of the issues there.  If that person wants some assistance,
> let me know.  I just didn't want to step on anyone's toes.
I was wondering if I could do anything there as well, but I probably 
don't have time anyway. Still, there's nothing to stop me playing with 
it if I do find the time, even if everyone else hates it. Ah, the joy of 
the GPL!

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Matthew Walton
matthew alledora co uk

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