Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Feb 2006, at 11:48, Joachim Noreiko wrote:

> --- Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I'm almost afraid to ask... did anything get decided?

I'm going to diplomatically defer to Bryan and Seth on that :)  They  
were really the ones at the centre of that decision/discussion (and  
IIRC, Seth originally wrote the part of the HIG that deals with using/ 
not using application names on the main menu)....

Cheeri,
Calum.

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