Re: Baobab

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

You know I only recently noticed that the guys behind Ethereal took the
move of renaming it to something slightly less arbitrary - "Wireshark".
Smart move. Perhaps we should follow suit with some of our crazily-named
apps.

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 01:57 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Chipzz wrote:
> > ...
> >> <Clueless user> Baobab? WTF is Baobab?
> >
> > Two words: disk usage.
> >
> > It is also a type of tree.
> 
> Chipzz was voicing a likely question of someone who hasn't seen Baobab  
> before upon encountering "Open in Baobab", not being a clueless user  
> him-/her-self.
> 
> Brand names should be used for things where competition or standards  
> compliance is important (e.g. operating systems, Web browsers, Internet  
> protocols, file formats). For something as mundane as a "View by Size"  
> menu item, go for obviousness instead.
> 
> > This was discussed recently
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-July/ 
> > msg00681.html
> 
> Yes, Chipzz's message is part of that same thread.
> 
> > ...
> > The third item listed by google for the word Baobab is the homepage for
> > the Baobab disk usage program:
> > http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html
> > ...
> 
> Are you suggesting that someone be expected to search Google to  
> understand menu items in a file manager?
>