Re: [Usability] App/applet name changes

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 09:03, John Sheehan wrote:
> 
> It seems that many of the apps/applets in the Gnome core
> are undergoing a name change
> 
> Is there an understanding that the app/applet maintainers 
> will reflect this change within the app/applet before the
> GUI string freeze date ?  For example, last I saw, the
> Tasklist was renamed Window List but it still refers
> to itself as Tasklist throughout its properties dialog.
> 
> It would be a usability issue if users referred to apps 
> by one name, but the apps knew themselves by a different 
> name.  Which name would the online help use ?

Agreed, and I'm going through and changing things to make sure they
match. I'm also changing binary names to more appropriately match the
panel menu entries where appropriate.

-Seth