Alex wrote:
> 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!"
I think we just have to agree to disagree to this. This is really a
matter of wether you like something or not.
Greetings
Georg
