Georg Meyer wrote:
> Well, silly or not, the user needs something to identify with. What
> users like about the products coming out of redmont is that they are
> easy to use and that they got names easy to remember (and make the
> costumer feel they got things under control). I know the mozilla guys
> hate to see this, but if youīre going to reduce your whole product to
> technical terms, (e.g. Calling the browser not navigater but browser,
> calling the mailnews app just mail and news app or, like you plan to do
> now, renaming "My sidebar" to "Sidebar"), it will never get recognized
> by the general public, no matter of how good quality it is. I know itīs
> not the original goal of mozilla to get known by the general public, but
> still, do you want the praise only to go to Netscape when 6.5 will be
> released or do you want mozilla to get known as a sucesfull open source
> project ?
>
> O.k. thatīs enough, because I feel so positive for mozilla in general,
> thatīs just something I got to say.
I don't think this is just the Mozilla guys, but I know tons of people
who hate the whole "My" prefix fad:
My Netscape
My Documents
My Music
Almost everyone I know, and most of these people are regular computer
users who can't tell the difference between the AOL and the Internet. I
think it is very redundant, or as one of my friends put it:
"Of course it's MINE! You don't have to tell me that it's MY Documents!"
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Alex <:3)~~
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