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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:Re: K start menu icon ideas
From:       Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2001-07-28 17:17:31
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On Saturday 28 July 2001 20:37, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > > "Configure stuff", "Start applications" or whatever. So in this way
> > > it's very descriptive.
> >
> > And what if they want to shut the system down for the first time? They'll
> > aks "how do I quit Windows?". And they just don't get the answer.
>
> Well - the assumption is that
>
> 1.) only very rarely people will "start" their very first experience
> with windows by shutting down the system.
>
> 2.) people will ask themselves: "Where on this interface do I start to
> do _something_ (and this could even mean "starting by shuting down").

What about words like "do", "go", "action", "act", "task", etc.? Those are 
all more generic and not towards "starting" something. Almost anything is 
semantically more correct than the word "start", IMO...

Martijn
 
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