From kde-core-devel Sat Oct 03 14:54:21 2009 From: Shaun Reich Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:54:21 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: RFC: System Settings categorisation overhaul Message-Id: <2165e9910910030754k5a8d8287g299cc5a79b3b16cd () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=125461472513719 On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Parker Coates wrote: > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 02:50, Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Dario Andres ( from bugsquad ) and myself have been working on this >> and have developed the following plan at this time for the modules >> [1]. Please see the following mockup to see how this would look [2]. >> This is aimed at KDE 4.4 at this point, and we hope to commit it next >> week assuming no changes need to be made. We would appreciate >> everyone's comments on this. > > I think we should drop the word "Look" and replace it with > "Appearance". Yes, it's longer, but as a native English speaker I find > the use of  "look" as a noun to be a bit awkward. Yes, "look" can be > used this way, but it generally implies appearance in the context of > personal fashion or style. I feel "Appearance" is more direct. > > I agree with others that the "International" is a bad name. People > rarely set up PCs for users in other countries, they set them up for > local users. "International" could also be interpreted as being a bit > US centric, implying that if you don't match the defaults, you're > foreign and weird. :) > > Anyway, I very much think this is a step in the right direction. The > advanced tab always bothered me. Good work. > > Parker > I agree, seeing the word "look" in some of those categories makes it sound kinda non-english. Especially "Applications Look" ("look? look where?", it initially seems like a verb, until you realize it doesn't make sense. Glad that this is having some spring(well..fall) cleaning done upon it. +1 on the optical/removable devices being confusing, as there are also external optical drives. So that *really* throws a wrench into the naming scheme. But then what for the case of people who do not know that their optical devices can even be "removed", I don't think I would consider my CD/DVD drive a removable device..as removable device tends to imply some form of plug and play, which mine is far from it (IDE and in a desktop :P ). Is that clear to most people, or is there a better form? -- KDE Developer, Shaun Reich