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Subject:    Re: Desktop Icon 'Home' -> 'Personal Files (Home)'
From:       David Hugh-Jones <hughjonesd () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-08-20 9:56:19
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I think "home" is so widely used in other unix documentation (and among
the community) that we have to keep it. It's also quite a nice metaphor
that people can grasp fairly easily - and gives them a nice sense of
ownership on a shared system.

"home directory" is more explicit. The problem is that the KDE standard
(if I have understood it) says use "folder" except for when you are
talking about the inner workings of the filesystem. So it really ought
to be "home folder". Which actually sounds pretty straightforward.

dave


On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 23:09, William Leese wrote:
> Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:15:29PM +0200, William Leese wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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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