It looks like no one responded to the concern raised below. It makes
sense to me that all applications should be identified by their name as
well as their function in gnome GUI menus. Furthermore, not doing so
frequently increases confusion for naive users. For example, due to
ongoing bugs
Hello,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 16:50, Patrick Goetzpgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
I'm not sure what the answer is at the moment, but a no-brainer
choice is to clearly identify WHAT application is being invoked from the
menu.
I agree. Displaying a Document Viewer (evince) or Document Viewer /
Patrick,
What a great line!!! Umm... shoot the GUI?? (my command-line response).
Thanks for the smile.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Goetzpgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
When the command line is more user friendly than the GUI, this should
set off those little alarm bells that
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:50:26AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote:
It makes sense to me that all applications should be identified by
their name as well as their function in gnome GUI menus.
I disagree. I /love/ the fact that our menu's aren't full of meaningless
names of applications. In fact,
Hello Soren,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:45, Soren Hansenso...@ubuntu.com wrote:
You think Evince is more helpful than Document Viewer? How so?
I personally think we should keep both, e.g. Document Viewer
(Evince). Why not have an inclusive view instead of an exclusive one?
The exact
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Soren Hansenso...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:50:26AM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote:
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No one knows to look for Document Viewer
If you put yourself in the place of someone who is not used to Linux:
You have a document you want to open (and for
Il giorno mar, 09/06/2009 alle 16.55 +0200, David MENTRE ha scritto:
I agree. Displaying a Document Viewer (evince) or Document Viewer /
evince would be a big plus.
Yes also because this is needed when talking to ordinary non-technical
users e.g. my mother on the phone I could not see the
I like the idea of App name - function, or Function - app name. Either
way. There are enough hard-to-pronounce app names in the Linux world
that it should be required to list the app function along with the app
name. Even listening to Linux podcasts, there is never any consensus on
how to
