Re: [Usability] application names in the application menu

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 31 Mar 2008, at 23:21, Jacob Beauregard wrote:
>   
> > The entire purpose of a branding (or in this case, brand naming)
> > something is its value for differentiation. Its usefulness has its  
> > roots
> > way before any of us were around.
> >
> > It is still typically bad practice not to include the purpose of an
> > application in its description. Ex. who the hell would know what
> > mousepad was at first sights? Also, how would I differentiate it from
> > gedit if they're both named Text Editor?
> >     
>
> This is why we don't show the brand name of core GNOME desktop apps on  
> the menus-- so that if I have two text editors installed, I know which  
> one is the blessed, GNOME standard one that presumably meets certain  
> quality and integration criteria, and which one isn't.
>
>   
Users need to know that there is a difference.
> > In the same sense, GNOME System
> > Monitor would differentiate itself from KDE's system monitor.
> >     
>
> A system monitor is a system monitor.  Why should the user care  
> whether they're running the 'GNOME' one or the 'KDE' one?  We have a  
> lot of users who don't even know they're using GNOME, let alone the  
> difference between GNOME and KDE.  (Hence the current HIG edict not to  
> use "GNOME" in an application's menu item.)
>
>   
The system monitors could be different, and users will generally hold 
preferences.

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
>