Re: Terminology

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Christian Rose wrote:

> > How about "Properties" ? I'm not saying that is the best one, but it is
> > being used in IBM's Workplace Shell.
>
> Speaking of "properties" works well for objects, but does it work well
> for a whole application? What are the "properties" of an application? Is
> it really the same as "preferences" or "settings"? To me, it's not.

True enough, and consequently, the WPS only uses this word in context
menus of desktop-objects.

For applications, Preferences is adequate for me.

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