Gabriel Burt wrote:
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Quote Calum:
In summary, now that you're a core desktop application and there are
no other core applications with a similar function, your menu entry
should not include the word Cheese. It should be something like
On 30 Mar 2008, at 09:14, Gabriel Burt wrote:
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Quote Calum:
In summary, now that you're a core desktop application and there are
no other core applications with a similar function, your menu entry
should not include the word Cheese. It should
Le vendredi 28 mars 2008 à 18:30 +0100, daniel g. siegel a écrit :
...
recently, i showed some pupils the gnome desktop and what i noticed
was, that they even didnt know what Cheese meaned, or what program
would open if he had clicked on it. this wasnt only on cheese, but
also on epiphany,
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
If a program has a name obviously related to what it does, *or* lots of
marketing, you're fine. But if you're missing both, people will have
trouble working out what the program is for.
Even then, an obvious name may only work for English. You will never see
Tomasz Torcz wrote:
As for previosuly mentioned Cheese, pl_PL GNOME has it translated as
Uśmiech! (eng. smile!). Still far from obvious for users.
In French it could be Wistiti!
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
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On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:18 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:39:33PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
If a program has a name obviously related to what it does, *or* lots of
marketing, you're fine. But if you're missing both, people will
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 19:38 +0100, daniel g. siegel wrote:
On Sa, 2008-03-29 at 12:27 +, Calum Benson wrote:
In summary, now that you're a core desktop application and there are
no other core applications with a similar function, your menu entry
should not include the word Cheese.
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 11:21 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
It's a shame that in 2008, we're still limited to 1980s
menus and very short labels. I've attached a very bad
mockup of how descriptions could be right there in the
menu where users can see them without hovering for the
tooltip.
We're
Il giorno sab, 29/03/2008 alle 12.27 +, Calum Benson ha scritto:
On 28 Mar 2008, at 17:30, daniel g. siegel wrote:
Historically, when we wrote the HIG we originally wanted all the core
GNOME desktop apps to have functional names only, to alleviate some of
this confusion. Thus
On 29 Mar 2008, at 20:38, daniel g. siegel wrote:
On Sa, 2008-03-29 at 12:27 +, Calum Benson wrote:
On 28 Mar 2008, at 17:30, daniel g. siegel wrote:
now i learned, that it was very confusing to have names like
nautilus,
epiphany, cheese for a guy, who hears those names for the first
Le vendredi 28 mars 2008 à 18:30 +0100, daniel g. siegel a écrit :
hi!
im writing this mail because i am very confused (and no, it is just
now ;) ).
in cheese we plan to change the description of the application menu
entry, as it is somehow misleading. we want to change it to Take photos
On 28 Mar 2008, at 17:30, daniel g. siegel wrote:
now i learned, that it was very confusing to have names like nautilus,
epiphany, cheese for a guy, who hears those names for the first
time. so
it would be better to have menu entries like Texteditor (gedit) or
Document viewer (evince).
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