Re: "Desktop preferences" as a top-level item

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 23:54, James Henstridge wrote:
> Seth Nickell wrote:
> 
> >Design A:
> >
> >A new top-level menu be created for settings (named the most familiar
> >word we can find, I suspect that's "settings"). Setting's structure is
> >as follows:
> >
> >Settings
> >   |-> Desktop -> (or "Personal")
> >   |-> Servers ->
> >   |-> Computer -> (or "System")
> >   |---------------
> >   |-> Background
> >   |-> Font
> >   |-> Sound
> >   \-> Theme
> >  
> >
> What do you think about using the term "Services" instead of "Servers"? 
>  As has been pointed out previously, the word server is associated with 
> both "certain types of programs running on my system" and the "that 
> systme in the machine room that stores my files".  I guess services 
> would be less confusing for new users, and still recognisable to 
> experienced users (Daemons is another less ambiguous word, but I doubt 
> it means much to new users).

Services certainely seems like a good option, I'll use that in my next
draft.

-Seth