Re: revised patch to change tooltips

[nils <n p sun com>]

Jamin,

One compromise would be

"Terminal for Command Prompt"

Anyone know what Mac OS X does?

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I think we need go through all the tooltips in GNOME. I could add an extra
field to that table I posted last week and come up with a proposal?

Nils

jpg2 cec wustl edu wrote:

> > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:08:37PM -0500, jpg2 cec wustl edu wrote:
> >
> > > Terminal emulation program - > Command Prompt
> >
> > I have some doubt about "Command Prompt".  With *nix systems, "Terminal"
> > is an important concept that is hard to fit in a simple "Command Prompt"
> > definition: you don't run Mutt inside a "Command Prompt", for example, but
> > you run it inside a full-fledged Terminal Window, or something like that.
>
> I fully understand your reasoning.  Here's my reasoning and the
> reasoning behind the usability report:
>
> The tooltips are for newbies--someone who has no clue what the icon
> does and particularly, someone who isn't familiar with Linux or Unix
> at all.  To them if they hover over the icon and a tooltip pops up
> that says "Terminal emulation program" that will be absolutely
> *nothing* to them.  However, even my mother has an idea what a command
> prompt is--and not just from her Windows experience.  The phrase makes
> sense to them.
>
> In addition, the phrase "Command Prompt" is more specific.  A terminal
> is a generic term--like you said you can run mutt or vi or pico in a
> terminal.  When someone is learning Linux/Unix they will invariably ,
> at some point, want to get to the command prompt to try something that
> a tutorial or a friend suggested.  They aren't likely to know that
> what they want is a terminal emulator that starts a shell, giving them
> a prompt.  Who cares that the command prompt is run in a terminal
> emulator?
>
> I guess what it boils down to is that the term "Command Prompt" isn't
> incorrect--it's specific.  It doesn't hurt the Unix pro's one bit;
> they know fully what they're doing--in fact they can easily change the
> tooltip themselves if it bothers them at some philosophical level.
> And it helps greatly the newbies--which is really what tooltips are
> for to begin with.
>
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