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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