On 09/20/2013 08:30 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > by the same argument, does a new comer want to see "Use this for > documents" and "use this for spreadsheets"... a new comer will look at > the menu and look for "What it does". I do believe this discussion > should be taken further as we are expecting windoze 98 people to be > using lubuntu. > > In this case, it should be "what it does" followed by "what it is"....
Oh, which comes first (name or function) is a separate issue. All I was saying is that different kinds of users expect both of those pieces of information, so having both of them in the menu label seems appropriate, and that is what mtpaint currently does. If you want to argue for something more like: Graphics Editor (mtpaint) that's fine, at least it still includes the program name and so is distinguishable from (for example): Graphics Editor (gimp) One issue I see here is that, as I currently understand it, these labels are in files currently installed as part of each package, so to change them, you would want to persuade each package maintainer to make that change... which is a LOT of work! Further, if Lubuntu decides that we want "Function (name)", but Ubuntu decides they want "Function", guess which one most package maintainers will use :) Technically, we might be able to maintain our own database of the menu labels we want and use something fix them up after installation, but that seems ugly, and prone to political trouble from package maintainers who could probably claim we are overriding their express intent... I'd say we leave any package that has both application name and function in its label alone, and focus on ones that lack one of those in their menu label... just to shrink the scale of the task. Jonathan -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users