Meaningless name (was: Re: rpms/xchat/devel ...)

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu May 31 21:26:19 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:15 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:09 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > > So the two of you simply decided that it would be better for everybody
> > > > if the menu item changed from the (somewhat cryptic, but informative)
> > > > "IRC" to the totally meaningless "X-Chat" ?
> > > 
> > > X-Chat has a meaning, it's the particular IRC client called X-Chat. There's 
> > > several IRC clients in Fedora, including one called xchat-gnome which several 
> > > people think should be the default (in fact, I'd LOVE for it to become the 
> > > default, not because I actually use it, in fact I hate it, but because that 
> > > could lead you to leave the regular X-Chat alone!), so "IRC" is very vague as a 
> > > menu entry.
> > 
> > Yes, IRC is not a very good menu item either, "IRC client" would be a
> > bit better, except you really don't want "clients" in the menus. But I
> > stand by my claim that X-Chat is totally meaningless to regular users. 
> 
> I'm a regular user. 

Umm, self-declared regular users don't count :-)




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