Re: Application names in menus

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 00:08, Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> > The problme being that users want to have TechnoBabble 1.2, TechnoBabble
> > 2.3 and TechnoBabble 2.4rc1 installed, and appear in a comprehencible way
> > not just three sets of three identical looking items 'Technobabble'
> > 'Technobabble plugin manager' and 'Technobabble updater' from which you
> > can't tell which applies to which version.
> 
> Then we should have smarts that put version numbers in the menus only
> when there are duplicates of the same application. But honestly.... I
> don't think this is really true.
> 
> I don't have a single duplicate application on my system. I bet a lot of
> Linux users don't, just because existing package systems don't let you.
> And I'm hearing outrageous screaming about this either. I notice big
> multi-user boxes often have a couple versions, but I don't commonly see
> this on single user boxes (either Linux boxes or Windows boxes (where
> its technically easy to do)).
> 
> There are cases of course; e.g. going back to the web designer who needs
> to test multiple versions of browsers. But they aren't the standard
> case. A lot of usability is about trying to keep the edge cases from
> polluting the standard case.

Have to disagree slightly here

It is not unusual to have two versions of major apps - one stable and
one development
eg: gnumeric-1.0 for full functionality and gnumeric-1.1.6 for gnome2
testing


> -Seth
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