Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Peter Williams <peter newton cx> writes:
> 
> I might as well take this opportunity to say something that's been
> low-level annoying me for a while. Can we stop the (Microsoft-started)
> trend of "My This" and "Joe User's That"? I mean, if you think about
> that, the only other products that do that are children's toys: "My
> First Chapter Book" or "Little Johnny's Very Own Set of Crayons." How
> about just "Preferences?" 
> 
> Obviously these things are subjective and they can subtly affect the
> feel of the desktop, so I'm not going to campaign to hard against "My
> Foobar." But I thought I'd mention my little pet peeve.
> 

In the case of Home or Preferences I think it actually does convey
important information, that you have things that are just yours
vs. things shared between all users.

You'd have to do user testing to see if this info needs conveying or
gets conveyed by this method, I guess.

Havoc