Georg Meyer wrote:
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> Alex wrote:
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>> Georg Meyer wrote:
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>>> Well, silly or not, the user needs something to identify with. What
>>> users like about the products coming out of redmont is that they are
>>> easy to use and that they got names easy to remember (and make the
>>> costumer feel they got things under control). I know the mozilla guys
>>> hate to see this, but if you�re going to reduce your whole product to
>>> technical terms, (e.g. Calling the browser not navigater but browser,
>>> calling the mailnews app just mail and news app or, like you plan to
>>> do now, renaming "My sidebar" to "Sidebar"), it will never get
>>> recognized by the general public, no matter of how good quality it
>>> is. I know it�s not the original goal of mozilla to get known by the
>>> general public, but still, do you want the praise only to go to
>>> Netscape when 6.5 will be released or do you want mozilla to get
>>> known as a sucesfull open source project ?
>>>
>>> O.k. that�s enough, because I feel so positive for mozilla in
>>> general, that�s just something I got to say.
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>> I don't think this is just the Mozilla guys, but I know tons of people
>> who hate the whole "My" prefix fad:
>> My Netscape
>> My Documents
>> My Music
>>
>> Almost everyone I know, and most of these people are regular computer
>> users who can't tell the difference between the AOL and the Internet.
>> I think it is very redundant, or as one of my friends put it:
>> "Of course it's MINE! You don't have to tell me that it's MY Documents!"
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> I think we just have to agree to disagree to this. This is really a
> matter of wether you like something or not.
>
> Greetings
>
> Georg
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>
I'm not saying that everyone dislikes the "My" prefix. I'm saying that
the people who dislikes it aren't just "techies" or "Mozilla people."
I'm just saying that you shouldn't generalize regular computer users
saying like or need the "My" for its clarity.
Anyway, this is only being done to Mozilla, which isn't intended for
end-users, and from the looks of it this isn't going to affect Netscape
6.xx, which is for end-users.
--
Alex <:3)~~
http://www.gerbilbox.com/newzilla/
