On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 04:52 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > This is just wrong. They have quite a bit of meaning. How many Windows > (TM) users go to look for "Spreadsheet" or "Word Processor"? They don't. > They look for "Excel" or "Word". If I have 5 different "Web Browsers" > installed and showing up in my menu, all with the same icon, how am I > supposed to know which is which? We really need to keep project names > around for things like this. And yes, we are working to make evolution > simpler, but we are now UI/String frozen for 2.0. Not that there should > not be multiple desktop entries for each major component (having one for > exchange or brainread probably doesn't make sense), which show up as > "Evolution Mail" or "Evolution Calendar". In fact, there is a patch > lying around somewhere that does exactly that. But saying that generic > names is the only way to go doesn't make sense, especially when in a > standard environment, the user probably has several choices for what > to use as their web browser, mail client, address book, instant > messenger, or whatever. I've felt for a while now that GNOME needs to adopt a standardised "two idea description" (which would usually come down to three English words), something like: Epiphany Web Browser Galeon Web Browser Evolution Calendar Balsa Email Client Gnumeric Spreadsheets OpenOffice.org Writer Word Processor Abiword Word Processor Mr Project Project Management This obviously doesn't apply to some things, eg: GNOME Keyring Manager On Screen Keyboard Also, since Nautilus has such a deep integration with the desktop, Browse Files, should probably stay the same. I mentioned some of my thoughts on menu layouts previously in this post: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004- June/msg00302.html --d -- http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/ PGP Fingerprint <http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/pgp> 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA
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