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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Descriptions Take 1 - Utilities
From:       David Hugh-Jones <hughjonesd () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-08-21 17:27:48
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On Thursday 21 August 2003 6:09 pm, William Leese wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm cleaning up K Menu descriptions.
>
> I set the following goals:
> - Descriptions shouldn't be any longer than necessary.
> - There's no need to repeat 'tool', 'utility', etc when the category
> reflects this.
> - They should be easy to scan. One way I want to accomplish this is by
> having the first word in the description represent what the user is
> looking for. Hence 'advanced', 'simple', etc should not be used as the
> first word.
>
> Don't read any further if you consider the above to be the incorrect
> approach, and just comment on that instead of that below.

All agreed.

>
> ark: Archiver Tool -> Archiver
>

not everybody knows what "Archiving"  is. I suspect they think more about "zip 
files", or "compression", with "zip" having a lot of instant recognition.

"file (un)zipper"?
"file compressor"?

dave
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