I agree that 'packages' is a technical term and that the following
message is more clear:
"""
This application allows you to add or remove a large variety of applications.
Ubuntu and third party vendors offer you a large variety of applications that
you can install on your system.
"""
In the same sense, is application too technical a term? The more
colloquial but less specific term 'program' is easier to understand for
a non-computer literate English user from the U.K. but I think program
sounds patronizing.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, draft edition of 2001,
application is defined as:
application, n.
* Computing. A function performed by a computer to meet a specific
user requirement; a program or piece of software designed to perform
such a function (as distinct from software which supports the operating
system itself). Cf. application(s) program(me) (b), sense 11a,
applications software.
This suggests that it is reasonable to use the more general term program
instead of application.
Comments or shall we leave it at that?
PS: I don't normally talk like this; I'm trying not to be hypocritical
:)
--
Some more typos
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62359
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
