Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 20:15 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: > Am Donnerstag, den 15.01.2009, 11:01 -0800 schrieb Rick Spencer: > > On 01/15/2009 10:53 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > > i doubt she would have that thorough understanding from an opaque name > > > like "software library" > > Interesting, so you feel that "software library" is opaque. Perhaps > > there is another "place" name that would have worked for her? > well, the thing is that it isnt a "place" but the button in the menu to > add or remove menuitems. for her it directly does what she expects it to > do and she immediately understands the concept because the app itself > visually connects to teh menu structure. > i'm not sure she would understand the concept of a "software place" as > replacement that easily ...
I can only second Oliver. You should also care about the existing users. Why confuse them with this naming change? Working on having only a single representation of applications on the system is a more worthy target: Currently we have got the menu item and the item in the add/remove dialog. Why not use the same object to start and remove applications and therefor renaming "add/remove..." to "install...". AFAIK gnome-main-menu of Novell tries to take this approach. By the way ellipses are used to show the user that a menu entry requires further input. The user interface of gnome-app-install is the one of an elaborated dialog and not the one of a full application which you would expect from a "software library" menu entry. Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
