Calling a window a "Manager" is almost always a symptom of being
indirect. Back in the dark days of Mozilla, pre-Firefox, it had so many
Managers -- "Bookmarks Manager", "Certificate Manager", "Cookie
Manager", "Form Manager", "Password Manager", "Profile Manager", and so
on -- that one of the developers once parodied it by implementing a
"Manager Manager" to launch them all. Their modern-day Firefox
equivalents are mostly more straightforward: for example "Bookmarks",
"Cookies", and "Saved Passwords".
That's the approach I followed here. Calling this window an "Update
Manager" makes it sound more complicated than it is. "Software Updater"
conveys more meaning in the same number of syllables.
Now, it's possible that there is a reason not to use the word "Updater". Maybe
indeed it "doesn't sound
natural" to an important proportion of English speakers, and there's something
else that would be better. But if you want to make a case for that, bring data.
Don't just link to two Google+ posts, written by the same person, wherein most
of the comments are irrelevant. Thanks.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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