Jumping on the dead horse, I've always disliked the use of the term for 
"computer program assistant." I've never understood the jump from ancient 
English religious order to this.

David

--- On Fri, 11/5/10, Christian Stimming <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Christian Stimming <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: (+1) Druid -> Assistant in Docs
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, November 5, 2010, 5:23 AM
> Zitat von Colin Law <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On 5 November 2010 09:41, Mike Evans <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Just a thought concerning the use of "druid" in
> the docs.  Earlier this year
> >> It was discussed that the use of "druid" is
> deprecated in favour of
> >> "assistant" in the GNOME Human Interface
> Guidelines 2.2.1.  It seems that this
> >> had not made it into the docs.  Should we be
> replacing druid with assistant in
> >> the docs?
> > 
> > In my opinion, yes.  It confused me when I
> started with gnucash.  I
> > had no idea what a druid was.  Not that I am sure
> the word assistant
> > is perfect but it is certainly better than druid.
> 
> +1 from me. Throw out the "druid" wording completely.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
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