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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Kcontrol proposal - screenshot
From:       Simon Edwards <simon () simonzone ! com>
Date:       2002-09-17 6:11:39
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On Monday 16 September 2002 19:16, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 16 September 2002 08:07 am, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote:
> > On Friday 06 September 2002 05:30 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > http://urbanlizard.com/~aseigo/kcontrol_structure_3_1.html
> >
> > Well, I have finally managed to read all the posts regarding the control
> > center after not reading the list for a week or so (hehe, that was fun),
> > and it sounds like things are shaping up pretty nicely wrt the
> > organization (excepting a couple minor points of contention among
> > people).
> >
> > After looking at the page noted above, I have just one fairly minor
> > suggestion:
> >
> > How do people feel about changing "Peripherals" to "Peripheral Hardware"?
>
> While moving stuff around I noticed that all group titles are fairly long.
> I think shorter titles would be easier and faster to scan, so maybe just
> "Hardware" would be an option?

I think that "Hardware" is a better name just because people have no idea what 
a "Peripheral" is (*ding* *ding* geek word). Mind you, the last time I 
suggested "Hardware" I got a big lecture about blah blah hardware config is 
for the distros blah blah do you know how hard it is to write hardware config 
utils blah blah...

We should be aiming for descriptive titles that normal people will understand. 
I don't think that shorter titles are in any way faster to scan. That 
argument doesn't make sense. People can (and will) just scan the first word 
in the label. Perhaps that is an argument for having the first word of a 
title unique, but thankfully we have that already.

-- 
Simon Edwards             | Guarddog Firewall
simon@simonzone.com       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."


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