Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:36:50 +0200, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > > > >>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". >> >> > >That's a desktop environment issue. For example, the KDE menu has items >like "Web browser (Konqueror)", making the name of the program irrelevant. > > > >>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 >>"Thunderbird"... you know... such things. >> >> > >mail-client contains 38 packages, which one becomes "My E-Mail"? > >What do you do about programs that don't fit into a single category, like >Mozilla or Konqueror? Creating suitably named desktop menu or icon >entries makes a lot more sense. > > > > Well... that's the most important point that I mean.
There are lots of email clients, so Gnome or KDE could be configured (is in some way possible right now) to be one as default, and always that you clicked "My Email" would open the one that was set as default. For people that doesn't care about all those things and doesn't want to know more (MOST OF WINDOWS USERS), they DON'T WANT TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE 254 email clients, that only will confuse them, and THINK THAT LINUX IS PRETTY HARD. So Linux could come with some defaults settings, that the people (like us) would change to make it more personal or better. But most of people (if we want linux to be in the desktop as windows is now), won't take care of. I think that my father wouldn't like to know that there are X email clients, and the features of each one. He only wants to click on "MY EMAIL" and read his new email. That's the point. Bye. -- [email protected] mailing list
