Re: Nautilus terminology

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:54 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Phil asked on IRC, then disappeared. Here's how I've been
> referring to Nautilus in the help.
> 
> If I want to refer to it generically (most of the time),
> I use "the file manager", all lowercase, no <app> tag.
> For example, "Click <gui>Trash</gui> in the sidebar of
> the file manager."
> 
> If I want to refer to it as an application, such as when
> telling users how to open it, I refer to it as "the Files
> application", putting <app> around Files. For example,
> "Open the <app>Files</app> application from the
> <gui>Activities</gui> overview."
> 
> It appears as Files in the overview, so that's what I'm
> using as the specific application name. But for normal
> prose, I prefer to refer to it generically as the file
> manager.

I would, by the way, extend this to a lot of applications
that have generally generic functionality.

  <app>Help</app>          ... the help viewer
  <app>Character Map</app> ... the character map
  <app>Image Viewer</app>  ... the image viewer

et cetera

--
Shaun