From kde-usability Thu Aug 21 18:37:35 2003 From: Sander Devrieze Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:37:35 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: K Menu: Name (Description) -> Description (Name) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106149105522676 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Op donderdag 21 augustus 2003 05:51, schreef Stian Søiland: > On 2003-08-21 01:12:11, Sander Devrieze wrote: > > There are keyboards, washing machines,... with names because this is good > > for marketing. Other example: it's bad, but it's true: people never say > > they start their word processing application; they say they start "word" > > (even if it's in fact e.g. OpenOffice.Org!!). > > On the funny side, our support departement recently received a message > from a person who wanted to restore her "world documents" from backup =) > > We need to fight this naming schema. Programs should be talked about by > their function, not their given name. I could easily imagine a > conversation between a KDE user and a Windows user, where the Windows > user would ask "Do you have Word in KDE?" and not understand the answer. > He doesn't want to use Openoffice (which he doesn't know what is, he > could imagine something new weird he needs to learn) - he wants to use > Word! (ie. a word processor) > > If the KDE user would say he had a word processor, not "Openoffice.org", > the Windows user might (..) recognize what he's talking about. > > And that's why the K-menu should 'talk' about media player and browser > instead of 'noatun' and 'konqueror. e.g.: Konqueror: For marketing is 'Konqueror' the best. For usability is 'webbrowser' the best. So I think we should show the 2 in the menu. - -- Mvg, Sander Devrieze. Jabber ID : sander@amessage.de ( www.jabber.org ) Public Key: www.keyserver.net ( 0x73470923 ) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RS0wK+G8aHNHCSMRAh4rAJ4o7z7p1ecksiwxsz8g36DUOhxUvQCgsYiL fSeHqcvV5RLDSunnLK+Gm6g= =P7mi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability