Missing xmms launcher

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 11 10:01:48 UTC 2005


Tim wrote:
> Rex Dieter:
> 
>>>It's there, but is listed as "Audio Player".  I always thought that was 
>>>pretty silly/stupid.
> 
>  
> Guy Fraser:
> 
> 
>>I'll second that.
> 
> 
> Thirded...  There's quite a few stupidly named applications in the
> menus, such as "text editor".  Which one?  We shouldn't have to hover
> and wait over each menu item to figure it out, or worse, run them.  Or
> have to figure it out via the icon (which is the only thing that tells
> you that "CD Writer" is "X Roast").

These "generic" names have actually been chosen as a matter of policy, 
the idea being that users unfamiliar with particular applications would 
be able to easily find a tool for the task they want to do, e.g. play 
some audio, edit some text, burn a CD. Most newbies wouldn't have a clue 
what "xmms" was for instance.

Paul.




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