[Fwd: Re: Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement]

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 12:09:18 UTC 2004


On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:57:33 -0400, Bryan Clark <bclark at redhat.com> wrote:
> Should the original Calculator change it's name to be
> "Microsoft Calculator" now that there's a new kid on the block?
> Probably not, the calculator that ships with the desktop is already
> branded by the entire desktop and doesn't need the added branding.  It
> is simply _the_ "Calculator" of the desktop.  Especially true if the
> calculator happened to come from a company that was bought by MS, all of
> a sudden it would show it's true colors and be the "SCO
> Calculator" (hypothetical situation of course).

Can you add/remove the MS calculator? And if so do you do it by just
selecting "calculator"
In the case of Epiphany in Fedora, when a home desktop user goes to
add/remove "Web Browser" (Epiphany) after they have discovered Firefox
and no longer care to use Epiphany, they have to know the brandname to
be be able to uninstall it or reinstall it. Is there a plan in the
works to make the concept of generic name for the default applications
map over as useful concepts for the software install/removal
operations? As much as seeing the name change will confuse people who
install a second web browser. It will be much more confusing if they
decided they don't need the default browser anymore and the add/remove
software tools don't understand the concept of generic name as seen in
the menus.

-jef





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