On 1/24/21 10:59 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Sun, 2021-01-24 at 14:19 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
I really think it is silly ti use those generic names in the menu. I
should change them all to something meaningful like the application
name.
There's some logic to it. I found the opposite problem when I've
looked at KDE, in the past. All those Ksomething named applications
where the name gives no clue as to what it does. And Gnome was just as
bad:
Evolution - does that sound like a mail program? There was a game by
that name, about evolution.
Empathy - does that sound like an internet messaging program?
Brasero - does that sound like it might be a disc burning program?
At least some programs acknowledge the problem (both ways), and you'll
find them listed in the menus like "Pidgin Internet Messenger" or "VLC
media player."
Well, you're not alone. Several years ago, I loaned my adult son a
laptop with PCLOS
and the KDE3 desktop, and he complained and bitched about the names that
the icons
had--Dolphin, Okular, Thunderbird, K3b, Konqueror--and finally he gave
the machine back
to me. He was completely turned off to Linux, and still is. Since I
haven't used Windows
in years, I had to open up one of those things and find just as many
weird names on
that system, but it doesn't bother him. Life is what you make it! --doug
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