Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 21 Feb 2006, at 14:12, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> I can *sort of* see the reason for this, because you
> get simpler items in the menu, eg 'Archive Manager'.
> But the policy isn't carried through system wide,
> because when you choose that from the menu, up pops a
> window called 'File Roller'!

This part was certainly a compromise.  The usability team originally  
wanted the generic names for core applications to be used throughout  
the application (except, perhaps, in its About box) as well as on the  
Applications menu, but some maintainers weren't happy at the prospect  
of losing their project names.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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