New subject: Proposal: Too similar application names

6 Jun 2011


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I agree, this is a good starting point.  I don't really see the point
of the popups,
but if other folks think they're necessary, I won't argue.
Wouldn't have to be popups. Actually they are used now to provide a
textual description of what the application does, e.g. for "Brasero
Disk Burner" -> "Create and copy CDs and DVDs", which just seem better
than having "Brasero Disk Burner" -> "Brasero". This unfortunately
doesn't provide for the distinguishment we seek, e.g. in example of two
terminals the popups are: "Terminal emulator" and "Use the command line"
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In theory, the technical side should be a thirty second fix.  The
issue would
be deciding new names.  Some things shouldn't be too difficult, such as
renaming Software Updates to Software Sources.
Combination of previous brings an idea - instead of modifying
application names, we could alter the problematic applications' popups
by adding a binary e.g like: "Terminal: Terminal emulator" and
"Konsole: Use the command line".
This way:
  + Both names would stay the same, so we wouldn't have do any actual
    renaming and (!) we'd evade any "arguing" among desktops
  + The original explanatory use of popups would be kept
  - Great for LXDE and XFCE, but there are no popups in Gnome 3 yet, thus
    out of direct reach of Fedora for now.
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I wonder if this should be a QA test?  It would help with improving the
end product for us to check things like this, but it is also fairly
subjective
as to what constitutes as 'too similar.'  I'm for it, but the
aforementioned
subjective nature makes coming up with a clear release criteria
difficult.
I agree that deciding what is "too similar" can be a tricky one. But
for most of the current apps the problem's simpler - the names are the
same.
Let's bring this up on today's QA meeting, I am sure we'll get a good
input on which way to go there.
Thanks!
Vita
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Vita Humpa
Fedora QA

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