Re: [Usability] A problem in GEdit menu entry

[Leonardo Pereira <leonardu_lopes yahoo com>]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Leonardo Pereira wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:53:37 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Leonardo Pereira <leonardu_lopes yahoo com>
> > To: usability gnome org
> > Subject: [Usability] A problem in GEdit menu entry
> >
> > I sent a message to gedit people and they said
> that I
> > have to send this message to you, so...
> >
> > Reading the HIG I saw that is a entry:
> >
> > "If there is a succinct functional description of
> your
> > application, use the format: ApplicationName
> > FunctionalDescription".
> >
> > But the gedit menu entry is "Text Editor". I think
> > that to be HIG compilant it has to be changed to
> > "gedit Text Editor".
> 
> The menu labels will look different depending on
> what you have configured.
> 
> I believe the default is to show the generic name
> "Text Editor" which
> on a machine setup with the Gnome defaults and only
> a few extra
> applications is what we want.
> If you have more text editors it should be possible
> to set your menus to
> show $APPNAME or $APPNAME $GENERIC-NAME.
> 
> I dont change the defaults very often so I dont
> happen to know how this is
> done but I believe changes to Gedit may be
> unnecessary.
> 
> What distribution are you using?  Normally I would
> expect distributions
> installing mutliple text editors to have sorted this
> out themselves
> (Mandrake for example has the menu set to say
> Gedit).
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Alan Horkan
> 
> 

I think that gnome _CAN'T_ think that people will only
use gnome applications. Some aplications, like Totem,
Gaim, Glade and Epiphany, has their names on their
"generic name", and I am sure that this doesn't
prejudice them and don't generate confusion about
their names. But I am worried about the fact that a
very generic name could generate some confusion about
what program the person is using, and I think that we
cannot expect that all distributions will solve that,
I think that gnome have to solve that by itself.

Thanks,

Leonardo Lopes Pereira
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"I am a Marxist of the Groucho tendency."

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