Re: Changing of GNOME's Menu Structure

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 3 Mar 2000 00:37:38 -0500, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "J" == James M Cape <jcape@jcinteractive.com> writes:
>
>    J> Our preliminary redesign calls for the following toplevel menus
>    J> to replace the existing setup:
>
>    J> Development Entertainment Multimedia Network Productivity Text
>    J> Editors Utilities
>
>It would seem to me to be most reasonble to map the top level options
>to the top activity domains, and to give this human names rather
>than engineering terms (unless we are targeting software engineers)
>
>"Development" is very fuzzy.  "Programming" is what we mean, so why
>not say so?

Because Programming is only a small part of Development.

People do use design tools, debuggers, icon editors, and other
non-programming development tools.
-- Elliot
"Moron of the week" for four years running