Re: [Nautilus-list] Preferences dialog: Suggested label change

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

I agree with you that we are going slightly off the deep end with this,
however, if you look at the link that Eugene posted:

http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html

you'll see why desktop icons is a bad name (desktop currently refers
collectively to the panels and windows, the desktop background, etc.) 
Since the GNOME documentation writers have no doubt relied on these
definitions, it makes sense for our application to be consistent with
our documentation.

But here's what I think is really going on.  We are fighting from 2
different perspectives:

1) Writers & users who pay attention - They want consistency.

2) Other users (probably the majority) - They don't read manuals
anyway.  They figure things out by trying them and seeing what happens. 
For them, more words -> more reading -> more headaches.

It appears, and I don't think that this is news, that it very will be
difficult to satisfy everyone.

That said, I vote that we use Eugene's idea for the time being.

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 07:24, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> About this Desktop Background thing, I don't think we should confuse the
> user by using backgound for the background and stuff on it.
> 
> The background is the pickture or color of the background, the icons are
> NOT part of the background. The are placed on the desktop and might be
> called desktop objects, but not desktop background objects... why not
> simply call them Desktop icons?
> 
> //Snaggen, think people are trying too hard.
> 
> ons 2002-04-03 klockan 15.02 skrev Eugene O'Connor:
> 
> bla bla bla...
> 
> > ----Desktop Background---------------------
> > | 
> > | [v] Use Nautilus to draw the desktop background      (CHECK BOX)
> > | 
> > 
> > ----Desktop Background Objects-------------
> > | 
> > | (*) Display default desktop background objects       (RADIO BUTTONS)
> > | ( ) Display contents of your home folder as desktop background objects
> > | 
> >  
> > I think this is more precise. Should I log this in bugzilla?
> > 
> > Eugene
> > 
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