Just a quick bump on this one as it's been hanging around for a while
now. A number of suggestions have been made for using a more descriptive
icon, which seems like a logical solution since the current one gives
the impression the app is related to gardening work in some way.
** Also affects: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/15495
Title:
"Archive Manager" doesn't mean anything if you don't know what an
"archive" is
Status in Archive File Behavior Research:
New
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in File Roller:
New
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
Triaged
Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
A new user thinks "I need to create a zip file", and doesn't know how to do
it.
If you don't know that a zip file is an "archive", which many new users do
not,
then it's very difficult to tell how to create one. "Create archive" on the
Nautilus context menu, "Archive Manager" in the Applications menu, etc, are
all
meaningless. (This happened to me today when someone I know rang me for
technical support to ask how to create a zip file, and when I explained how,
he
said "what's an archive?")
Suggested fixes (to be taken with a very large pinch of salt and replaced with
better suggestions):
Change "Create archive" to "Create compressed file" on the context menu
Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu (with
tooltip "Create and edit compressed files")
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300655
Then won't you get questions like: "What's a compressed file"?
Perhaps some other wording may help such as: "Create a safe copy of a
file".
Proposed solution:
* In context menu rename "Create Archive" to "Compress..."
* The subsequent dialog box should be re-titled to read: "Create compressed
file"
* The input box on the dialog box should be re-labelled from 'Archive' to
'Filename'
* Change "Archive Manager" to "Compressed Files" on the Applications menu
(with tooltip "Create and edit compressed files")
More data and discussion can be found here:
* http://www.designintheopen.org/profiles/blogs/zip-archive-package-or and
* http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=143#comment-23493
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