Re: [Usability] "Finish" vs. "Close" in gnome-control-center dialogs

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:45 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> And why does it say "wallpaper" anyway? Is the style
> guide not clear enough?
> "wallpaper: Do not use this term. Use the term desktop
> background."
> http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html

These are guidelines, and it uses appropriate terminology where
appropriate. The guidelines are ignorant of the separation of image and
color for the desktop background. These two items are not mutually
inclusive into a single object and term.

Also: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A21F13DDC

Practically every movie site, and theme site, calls desktop backgrounds,
"wallpaper". The fact that it says "Wallpaper" is not confusing. The
fact that it says "Add" is. And in more cases than not, "Add" in the
file chooser dialog is much more confusing than "Add Wallpaper" in the
main capplet UI.

So, no, the style guide is in fact, not clear enough. As a maintainer
and designer, actual usefulness and practical terminology is more
important than following a guideline for the sake of following the
guidelines. My job is to write the best possible software and interface
that I can write, not to follow guidelines because the guidelines are
there. They are in fact, only guidelines, and not a standard for
language which must be adhered to by all applications.

-- dobey