On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:05 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > In particular, can we/fedora consider using better menu names now, so > users know which apps are really behind some generic (and mysterious?) > items in menus(1). You know, I can't help but agreeing that the presented names need to be improved somehow. I keep stumbling over the ambiguity over and over again in various situations. The menus are one thing, but they're also presented in other things like right-clicking a nautilus icon and choosing an "Open With <generic-name>" option. On several occasions, I've accidentally or without thinking clicked on the wrong application option. Even though I've trained myself to "slow down" and try to find the right option because it's not readily presented, I inadvertently click on the wrong selection. Luckily it hasn't resulted in catastrophic results (clicking the wrong option doesn't result in deleted files or anything like that), but it's certainly irritating on slow machines to wait for a process to finish starting up before I can shut it down. And at that point in time when I feel irritated, I just can't help but wish that the menu option was clearer to begin with. In the course of a working day, I get up to speed and start doing things one after the other like it was second-nature to me (kind of like touch-typing) only to get tripped up by ambiguous options. For instance, looking at my Applications -> Sound & Video menu, it only takes me a fraction of a second to realize whether an application is relevant to my current context when I see the application name. Seeing two "Movie Player" options makes me pause and try to figure out which is which. Can't we do something like "<action> <language-specific-preposition> <application>" (ie. "Play Multimedia with Totem", "View Graphical Images with gimp", "Edit Graphical Images with gimp" or whatever the sequence is in other languages). Or perhaps "<action> (<application>)" like "Play Movies (Totem)" -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
