Re: [Usability] 'Capplets' (was Re: background/font capplets)

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello sun com>]

I've just come out of a meeting with the interested parties in Dublin (Calum, 
Nils, John Sheehan, Eugene O'Connor), and our vote is for the suggestion that 
Seth made in this string for "Desktop Preferences". We also suggest putting 
"Desktop Preferences" into the Applications menu as a menu item, so that the 
path would read: 

Applications -> Desktop Preferences -> Background

If everyone agrees, would it be OK if we go ahead and make this change? 

Pat

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> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:05, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu> writes:
> > > The best suggestion that pops into my head is to call the general "area"
> > > of GNOME the "Desktop Preferences". I would refer people to specific
> > > preference pages in the documentation based on the Applications (e.g.
> > > "Applications->Preferences->Background").
> > > 
> > 
> > Since it's in Applications maybe we could call them "preferences
> > applications"? "Preferences X" where X is something seems like the
> > right idea.
> 
> That seems backwards. "X Preferences" seems much more natural, unless
> I'm misunderstanding what you intend X to be...
> 
> -Seth
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