On 27 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: >> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:36 +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote: >>> I understand that, but in the case of the RBAC profiles it is >>> clearly a Solaris addition so it would be nice to have the >>> correct terminology. >> Actually it's not; the Linux versions have a "User Privileges" tab >> too, >> with 'privileges' such as "Use audio devices", "Monitor system logs" >> etc. >>> I'd recommend using "RBAC Profiles" as the name of the tab/ >>> functionality >> Personally I'd prefer to avoid abbreviations in the UI, as we do >> throughout GNOME where possible, although "Role-Based Access Control >> Profiles" would certainly be a bit of a mouthful. > > I agree but RBAC is the name of the functionality and it is a > pretty well known abbreviation. Plus it is also the name of the man > page!
True, but if you're the type who reads manpages you're not going to want the GUI anyway, right? :o) </contrived generalization> Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
