On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 22:36 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote:
Can someone please point me to the file that explains the rationale for changing the title of the stylist to Styles & Formatting?
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/formatting/Assigning_Styles_in_Writer.sxw
| The term Stylist in this menu does not explain the function itself and
| furthermore the competition uses a different term. So we change the | menu entry from âStylistâ to âStylesâ. The keyboard shortcut will be | kept.
I applaud this change, "Stylist" always made pictures of the stereotypical gay hairdresser from your average hollywood movie come up[1] in my head, and IMHO this term is not clear at all. The new term might not be as concise, but it explains much better what is going on.
What is unclear about a list of styles being called the Stylist.
Further, I want to know the rationale, I fear it is another one of these, everyone else calls it this so we should.
I think this is a silly reason to change. If there are valid reason for a change fine. However, we are told that there aren't enough developers and the project has been delayed. If this is true, why are changing things that aren't broken?
Especially good is that this term is finally translated into German as "Formatvorlagen und Formatierung" or something similar, because "Stylist" made even less sense in German.
Each language project gets to pick its own name, so Germany might opt back to the old version. Italy is sticking with Stylist.
BTW: Is there a Spec detailling the new terminology somewhere?
Especially for people writing documentation this would be great.
It is not very easy to find this stuff across about 100 specs.
There is an item for Terminology specs on the website, but it is empty.
Here is a brief list: <http://oooauthors.org/groups/authors/userguide2/resources/ui_string_changes>
There is a better list somewhere on the OOo site, but I don't remember where.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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