On Monday June 20 2005 3:36 pm, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > Well, we have to take in count that we're all Linux users, and that we > all know that firefox navigates the internet, and thunderbird reads your > email.
Or in my case Konqueror and Kontact (such is the beauty of choice ^_^)
> Now, what I want to suggest is to change some apps' name, I mean: It's
> true that nowadays linux is going straight to the desktop, but think
> about telling a friend (that doesn't know what Linux is, I'm sure you've
> got such friend) and to install it. Will he know that firefox is for
> surfing the Internet? and Thunderbird for reading his emails? I think
> that the response is "No".
OTOH, the Mozilla suite is pretty widespread over in msft-land too, so many
people know about Firefox and Thunderbird (maybe not as many know about Nvu
and Sunbird...)
> We must do some things to make linux even better, and easier for that
> users.
>
> "Internet Navigator" instead of "Firefox", "My E-Mail" instead of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-> Please ${DEITY} no!
> "Thunderbird"... you know... such things.
Do you mean like how KDE puts things in it's menus like:
Web Browser (Konqueror)
PDF Viewer (Adobe Reader) etc.?
For Firefox, that would just be a quick change to a desktop file (I thought it
already had the 'Web Browser' bit, but now I look it doesn't.
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