On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:54 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: > Hi all, > > Phil asked on IRC, then disappeared. Here's how I've been > referring to Nautilus in the help. > > If I want to refer to it generically (most of the time), > I use "the file manager", all lowercase, no <app> tag. > For example, "Click <gui>Trash</gui> in the sidebar of > the file manager." > > If I want to refer to it as an application, such as when > telling users how to open it, I refer to it as "the Files > application", putting <app> around Files. For example, > "Open the <app>Files</app> application from the > <gui>Activities</gui> overview." > > It appears as Files in the overview, so that's what I'm > using as the specific application name. But for normal > prose, I prefer to refer to it generically as the file > manager.
I would, by the way, extend this to a lot of applications that have generally generic functionality. <app>Help</app> ... the help viewer <app>Character Map</app> ... the character map <app>Image Viewer</app> ... the image viewer et cetera -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
