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On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:54 -0400, Vitezslav Humpa wrote:
> The way KDE application launcher handles this also provides nice
> example for a design solution to this problem. They use a
> "Generic" (e.g. Terminal) field to describe the application
> primarily
> and have the name of the actual binary (e.g. Konsole) present in
> small
> letters when the generic name is not unique.
I happen to think this is the wrong way round. For someone who's not
sure what they want, it might be marginally better, but for anyone who
already knows, i.e. for most people most of the time after learning
it,
it just produces a momentary hesitation every time you use it.
For example, I have *never* thought to myself "Oh, I need to fire up
the
Groupware Suite". I just look for Evolution, but it's in small letters
in a grey font. Much better would be to have Evolution as the main
menu
item, with Groupware Suite in a small grey font for those who don't
know
what it is (think of it as a poor man's ToolTip).
There's a difference between easy to use and easy to learn. We would
do
well to favour the former over the latter whenever there's a conflict.
poc
Are you referring to a situation in KDE(can't boot it now to check)?
Seems to me that most of the times we do use the application's actual
name in the menus. With few exceptions that form the base of this whole
problem.