Re: Better name for computer:// place?

["A. Walton" <awalton gmail com>]

On Feb 18, 2008 12:20 PM, Milan <nalimilan club fr> wrote:
> [Disclaimer: this is my last annoying message about this subject.]
>
> Does my question appear as pointless to all of the developers ? If so,
> please just answer me two word and I will forget it. I'd just like to be
> sure that this point has been considered, because there may be solutions
> if you agree with my point of view.
>
>
> Thanks, and sorry if this thread was just creating useless noise on the list

I think it's pointless, mainly on an infrastructural level. Renaming
the backend is just going to require a bunch of code changes, cause
already rotting documentation to fall further behind, trigger a bunch
of new translations and not really lead to anything better at the end
of the day. Users coming from Windows are also familiar with the
location called "Computer", so changing it could be disruptive to
them. Then you have the trouble of figuring out what you want to call
it (should it be "System" like KDE? "Devices" like Finder? "Disks"
even though that's even more ambiguous? one of the other suggestions
here?), and generating posts like this one with a dozen replies and
zero consensus (namely because none of the names suggested are
blatantly obviously better than "computer").

Just 2c.
-A. Walton

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