Re: [evolution-patches] String freeze-breaking patch: Make evo desktop file HIG 2.0-compliant

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

"Evolution E-Mail, Calendaring, and Address Book" is a bit long for a
menu item, don't you think?

Anyway, this has been discussed before, and we made the decision to do
this for 2.0. The correct solution is long-term, and involves splitting
things out.

-- dobey


M�ie , 2004-08-29 at 16:07 +0100, Andrew Sobala ka shkruar:
> On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 17:46 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 29.08.2004, 07:45 -0400 schrieb Rodney Dawes:
> > > As JP stated, we prefer to use "Evolution" simply. As for the HIG,
> > > that's a pretty sad argument, since the only applications in my menu
> > > which seem to actually honor that, are the ones that would generally
> > > contain "Gnome" before them.
> > 
> > gnumeric, abiword, planner, mergeant, epiphany, galeon, rhythmbox,
> > muine, sound-juicer, totem, aislerot, freecell, gthumb, ggv, inkscape -
> > just to enum some of them, they all use the pattern "<appname>
> > <descriptive info>".
> > 
> > > The term "Groupware" causes more confusion than help, so I'd rather we
> > > leave it out.
> > 
> > It gives users at least a clue what it is all about, at least it does
> > for me - although I must admit, that it isn't 100% fitting, I can't come
> > up with anything better.
> > Do you lose anything by adding it?
> 
> Maybe the correct solution here then is to think of a descriptive name
> that does help the user. "Evolution E-mail and Calendaring" I think
> would be some improvement, at any rate.
> 
> --
> Andrew
>