Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 17 Feb 2006, at 12:34, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> Or 'File Roller Archive Manager', 'Gedit Text Editor',
> which is more readable in English. But each language
> should be free to invert the order to suit.
>
> It's something I've been thinking of raising on the
> Usability list for some time. Feel free to beat me to
> it :)

FWIW, it's been discussed to death before, e.g.:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-June/msg00074.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148826

And previously:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-July/ 
msg00845.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-August/ 
msg00000.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-October/ 
msg00538.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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