what is "Document Viewer"?

[Bill Davidsen]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> brian wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Sam & Georgi. I'm having a little PDF issue: ghostscript is
>>>> complaining but Document Viewer is not. I needed to know that app is for
>>>> debugging info. This is perfect.
>>> Yet another reason why programs should be named with their actual name in
>>> the menus, not some generic name. :-/ This crap really needs to get fixed.
>>>
>> I think you have lost sight of the user here, the average user would see
>> "evince" in a menu and have zero idea what it is and does.
> 
> None of us have any idea what the average Fedora is. Making decisions
> based on a fictional user is not useful. You need to worry about the
> users here and now, that are represented.
> 
>> It is a
>> meaningless collections of vowels and consonants which are unrelated to the
>> function. The name of the application should be available, but not at the
>> expense of something useful to typical user.
>>  document viewer (evince)
>>  document viewer (xpdf)
>> for examples.
> 
> Regardless of skill level, "document view" is not a useful search
> term. Evince however is. Giving the user the ability to find
> information, instead of assume it is more useful.
> 
If you find a meaningless word in a menu more useful than a description of what 
service it provides or problem is solves, good for you. Most people, in Fedora 
or real life, would prefer that they know what's on the menu before ordering.

The average Fedorian is someone who has not studied every program in /usr/bin 
just for the fun of it. And I admit that since I have other tools to view pdf 
files (xpdf mainly) that I have never felt any curiosity about evince, nor would 
I be likely to launch anything "just to see what happens."

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