Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28
Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28
Posted Sep 24, 2009 14:23 UTC (Thu) by alankila (guest, #47141)In reply to: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28 by beranger
Parent article: Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.28
What's stupid about GNOME is not that programs in menus are called by names like Movie Player. What is stupid is having a name like Totem, which offers no way to know the function of the program by its name.
Let's take another clever name: Baobab. This is a tree that grows a long, smooth trunk with branches at very high level from ground. If it kinda looks like a metaphor for a filesystem tree, is it then a good name for a Disk Usage Analyzer? I couldn't disagree more.
If only every application had simple, boring name that bore direct resemblance to its function, like, say, gnome-media-player or gnome-disk-usage-analyzer, GNOME would be that much less annoying.
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