Re: GUI terminology

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

I'm cross-posting your comments on the word list to gnome-doc-list,
where the document authors live and other people are currently
commenting on the draft styleguide too...

Cheeri,
Calum.


Christian Rose wrote:
>
> This wordlist certainly looks promising! Whoever wrote it (Dan?) needs a
> big, big thanks.
> 
> >From a quick look at it:
> 
> * applet / panel applet
> Some time ago, someone on usability-list mentioned that usability studies
> showed that the "applet" terminology was confusing (confusion with Java
> applets). "Panel applet" was suggested for those cases where the context
> could be uncertain (i.e if you right-click on the panel, it would only
> need to be "applet", but in other cases "panel applet"). The wordlist
> does not mention this, maybe it should?
> 
> * folder / directory
> An even longer time ago, there was a big discussion on gnome-gui-list on
> the pros and cons of "folder" versus "directory" in the UI. If I remember
> correctly the discussion finally ended on "folder" being preferred by more
> people for various reasons. Currently, the state in GNOME regarding this
> terminology is very inconsistent - some apps use folder, others use
> directory. I think a decision on this is very much needed to be in the
> word list if it is to be used as a GNOME terminology guideline...
> 
> Christian

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