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

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

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