You know I only recently noticed that the guys behind Ethereal took the move of renaming it to something slightly less arbitrary - "Wireshark". Smart move. Perhaps we should follow suit with some of our crazily-named apps.
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 01:57 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Chipzz wrote: > > ... > >> <Clueless user> Baobab? WTF is Baobab? > > > > Two words: disk usage. > > > > It is also a type of tree. > > Chipzz was voicing a likely question of someone who hasn't seen Baobab > before upon encountering "Open in Baobab", not being a clueless user > him-/her-self. > > Brand names should be used for things where competition or standards > compliance is important (e.g. operating systems, Web browsers, Internet > protocols, file formats). For something as mundane as a "View by Size" > menu item, go for obviousness instead. > > > This was discussed recently > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-July/ > > msg00681.html > > Yes, Chipzz's message is part of that same thread. > > > ... > > The third item listed by google for the word Baobab is the homepage for > > the Baobab disk usage program: > > http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html > > ... > > Are you suggesting that someone be expected to search Google to > understand menu items in a file manager? > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
