Re: Menu names

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:49:08AM +0000, kenneth gnu org wrote:
> Now that Gnome 1.4 is soon going to be released, I think we should look at
> the menu names. What I am refering to is menu names including GNOME, like 
> for instance "GNOME Charmap" etc. It is of my opinion that we in the menu 
> should try to avoid using the "GNOME" tag, as it seem very obious, and    
> very unprofessional.
> 
> Also names like for instance "gedit" isn't very userfriendy. At least not
> for non-english speaking people. Well, you might say, you can just call it
> something else, but if I suddently call it "Tekstbearbejder" is Danish,   
> people will flame me, since it all other places are called gedit. If it   
> instead was called "GNOME Text Editor" (and Text Editor in the menu
> :)) people wouldn't flame be, since then "Tekstbearbejder" then just is a
> literal translation.
> 
> Also we are moving onto non-hackers desktop, even on desktops on Solaris,
> etc, so if we want to change this (I really hope so) then now is the time.


Why not give the type of application in parenthesis as in:

gedit (Text Editor)
GIMP (Image Manipulation Program)
gfrobate (Frobation Device Controller)

George

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