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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Dolphin
From:       "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ariszl=F3?=" <ariszlo () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-10-10 6:31:56
Message-ID: 86b51ff30710092331q33bf69bbiba8e01f6f10e9de0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Using generic names for names is bad manners in a multi-desktop
environment, imho. Say you install both KDE with KCalc and a
usability-enhanced desktop environment which lists its own calculator
as Calculator. Since both KDE and the usability-enhanced desktop
environment are freedesktop.org compliant, both KCalc and Calculator
will appear in K Menu. Calculator will be listed as "Calculator" as if
it were the default calculator, which it is in its own desktop
environment but not in KDE.

Ariszló

On 10/9/07, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> I may be completely off-mark here, but it seems to me that sometimes
> developers (as in any party involved in the software creation) implicitly
> have in mind "alone in the world" user concept.
>
> Applied to the case of generic program names, they may be good for an AITW
> user (I don't know), but I find them hideous for communication in diverse
> world of free software: "How do I strike three dragons in the file
> manager?" -- "Err, WHAT file manager are we talking about?"
>
> P.S. I was greatly disappointed when I had to concede that "developer" is
> used as a synonym for "programmer", contrary to how I used it above :) I
> miss the point...
>
> --
> Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
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