Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 17/02/2006, at 11:04 PM, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> > I would recommend the initial window, at least, of
> > each app containing:
> >
> > Menu name - App. name
> >
> > so with File-Roller, you select Archive Manager and
> > get a window titled:
> >
> > Archive Manager - File Roller
> >
> > Is that workable?
>
> Or 'File Roller Archive Manager', 'Gedit Text Editor',
> which is more readable in English. But each language
> should be free to invert the order to suit.
>
> It's something I've been thinking of raising on the
> Usability list for some time. Feel free to beat me to
> it :)

I'm not on that list, and have too many to manage already, Joachim,  
so please do raise it, including my text if that is useful. This is  
definitely an internationalization issue as well as a general  
usability one.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN