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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)'
From:       William Leese <yatsu () wanadoo ! nl>
Date:       2003-08-19 22:09:20
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Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:15:29PM +0200, William Leese wrote:
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>>I saw that in the kmenu we have 'Personal Files (Home)' but on the 
>>desktop its label is 'Home'. This should be changed not only for 
>>consistency (not really, because only applies where the 'Description 
>>(appname)' is set for kmenu) but more importantly because 'Home' is a 
>>*nix only term and doesn't mean anything to our Windows friends.
>>Any major objections/oversights?
>>    
>>
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>Not sure. In almost all applications there is identical(?) icon with
>simple tooltip: Home. I understand problems with wording but why not
>stick with some *nix terms like directory and home?
>  
>
The impact of such a change is bigger than it would seem at first. But 
really nothing is being changed in the end. The desktop icon 'Home' is 
pretty visible whereas most other home icons are less so. OTOH the open 
file dialog has a 'Home Directory' entry.. so we can't change one thing 
without changing the other. Also, the open file dialog's shortcut icon 
text doesn't wrap, it just displays a horizontal scrollbar.

>Maybe do it the other way: Home (personal files)?
>
Need some more consistency in this. Perhaps good to take this up in the 
KDE terminology wiki.

I've seen:

Home
Personal Files (Home)
Home Directory

As suggested I'd like to see 'Personal Files (Home)' be used.

Thoughts?

- wvl

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