Re: [Usability] Exposing the "gedit" program name

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 00:00 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:13:04 -0400
> > From: Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>
> > Reply-To: mightyquinn letterboxes org
> > To: usability gnome org
> > Subject: [Usability] Exposing the "gedit" program name
> >
> > I noticed an inconsistency in the Gedit text editor-- its launcher (and
> > thus its "open with" association in Nautilus) is labelled simply "Text
> > Editor", but within the program itself, it's called gedit. This seems
> > both unintuitive, and inconsistent with the rest of GNOME (nautilus
> > becomes File Manager, rhythmbox is Music Player, etc.)
> >
> > I did a search of Bugzilla and found this old bug from 2002:
> > http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87265
> >
> > It's resolved as basically "The author didn't think it felt right", but
> > I wonder if this shouldn't be looked at again.
> 
> Considering how things have moved on and the name gedit is largerly
> hidden everywhere else it would seem reasonable to ask for this to
> be reconsidered.  It makes sense to me to reuse the label "Text Editor"
> (and it think it might be preferable if the label from .desktop file
> was used directly so that if the menu item was changed to something like
> "Gedit Text Editor" that change would happen in both places).
> 
> - Alan

I've submitted this to Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=153995