Dereck <[email protected]> > "Software Library" reflects what it really is IMHO.
Or Program Catalog or Application Repository (a packager's preferred :-) ) or Gadgets Database or some other combination. People usually do not care about name of a tool as long as it does what they want. And as long as they can find the right tool based on what they want. Perhaps users want a "Software Library" but certainly they want to "Add or Remove Programs". Once they see "Add or Remove Programs" they realize a mental match and click it. Title of the window that appears next is less important - they already know it is related to adding or removing programs, as long as the window appears before they loose track of what effect was caused by which click (few seconds). Tomasz Dominikowski: > I don't think Ubuntu should be > influenced by design decisions in a single phone (iPhone) and a niche > (for now) phone platform. Partially valid. Ubuntu should be influenced if a) the design is clever or b) makes transition easier for many users and is not more stupid than current design. However there are still too few users of iPod or Android and I believe the proposed name is less clever. > I would suggest focusing on things that are really broken. Matter of opinion. Example: 1) Abiword crashes under certain circumstances. 2) Friend of mine could not establish openvpn connection because VPN wizard asked him questions he did not understand although the fields were not necessary. Most coders I met assign higher priority to a crash (no matter how rare) than to any user-interaction problem. 2009/1/15 Rick Spencer <[email protected]>: > I think the proposal addresses more than a usability problem, I think it > was put forth also to capitalize on a perception opportunity. In other > words, perhaps having a "place" to go is something that users think is > rather cool. We have such a place, but we don't position it as such. Propagating a feature (a name for "place") is good for news announcement and for word of mouth on forums, there is to be read not to be used. In short: Keep the current one, though I appreciate the initiative. Petr -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
