On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:45 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > And why does it say "wallpaper" anyway? Is the style > guide not clear enough? > "wallpaper: Do not use this term. Use the term desktop > background." > http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html
These are guidelines, and it uses appropriate terminology where appropriate. The guidelines are ignorant of the separation of image and color for the desktop background. These two items are not mutually inclusive into a single object and term. Also: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A21F13DDC Practically every movie site, and theme site, calls desktop backgrounds, "wallpaper". The fact that it says "Wallpaper" is not confusing. The fact that it says "Add" is. And in more cases than not, "Add" in the file chooser dialog is much more confusing than "Add Wallpaper" in the main capplet UI. So, no, the style guide is in fact, not clear enough. As a maintainer and designer, actual usefulness and practical terminology is more important than following a guideline for the sake of following the guidelines. My job is to write the best possible software and interface that I can write, not to follow guidelines because the guidelines are there. They are in fact, only guidelines, and not a standard for language which must be adhered to by all applications. -- dobey _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
