>>>>> "DS" == Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> writes: DS> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:03:35PM -0600, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote: >> The Lycoris menu usually does not list the application name because so many >> are simply not descriptive. Kooka for example is a scanner application. In >> the menu its "use a scanner". Xine is "DVD/DiVX Player"...simple. DS> Simple for the user, sure. Sounds like a support nightmare, DS> though... DS> "Hey, TCLUG list! I just installed my new Linux box and my scanner DS> doesn't work." DS> "What app are you using?" DS> "I dunno. I just click on 'use a scanner' and it does X instead of DS> Y." But most home users don't have any access to support. Making the application usable to them at the expense of making it hard for sysadmins they don't have, seems like a very reasonable tradeoff. And if they can get to an organization like TCLUG, or are forced to dig in and diagnose the thing themselves, it isn't that hard to find the link. And, anyway, it's no worse than windows (have you tried to find where internet explorer REALLY lives, lately?), which has support already. The payoff seems to go to burying the app name. Anyway, using KDE is just as bad, but not as helpful. Try to find the "archiver", for example.... It sure ain't /usr/bin/archiver.... So you're eating this cost anyway, you might as well have DESCRIPTIVE names and get some payoff. For that matter, I'm pretty convinced that coming up with a nearly icon-free screen would be a big help. Icons are ambiguous and suck ("oh, yeah, the tyrannosaurus head, that means a web browser"). Words like "mozilla web browser" are a lot better. R