24 Jan
2011
24 Jan
'11
9:49 p.m.
On 01/24/2011 03:15 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
I'm searching, unsuccessfully, for a verb that works here or something more
descriptive. Office, Document or Documents are nouns and don't seem to impart
the "create this here" paradigm I'm looking for. I think a word that
conveys
this toplevel holds "The core applications you use everyday" would be best.
Maybe we just called it "Drudgery" or "Salt Mine Apps" ;-)
Seriously, maybe:
Core Applications
Documents Apps
I'm still searching
<snip>
I agree with the distinction here. If there are going to be 2 toplevels, then I
like the traditional:
Education
Astronomy
Chemistry
Language
Mathematics
Teaching ( this seems a bit redundant -- maybe 'Teacher Tools' )
Games
(the normal time killers)
I thought about alternatives, but unless you are using minicom or kinternet,
just about everything you do or connect to goes across the LAN or WAN as TCP/IP.
'Internet' or 'Internet & Connectivity' just works well for all the
apps like
konqueror web browsing, Firefox, Opera, Tbird, Kopete and the like.
Connections & Sharing makes me think of SMB, NFS, etc.. which I usually find
under 'System/Network'
+1, Thanks Felix :)
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Office
The top level could just as easily be called
'Document'
Between the two I think the latter plus an "s" makes more sense. Maybe expand
to
"Documents and Publishing". Home users need documents, but not necessarily
office.
Edutainment& Health
Edutainment & Games probably shouldn't be distinguished.
I think subdividing media into graphics and multi-media is artificial. On
Windows systems I put VLC, Adobe Reader, IrfanView, ITunes and so forth in a
"Media" "folder" in "Programs".
It may just me be, but when I think of media on a computer, I think of (the
thing). The disk, the floppy, the cd, etc. I agree that 'Multi-Media' is a
bastardization of a description of an old 286 with a sound card.
I think of 'Graphics' as the manipulation of Bitmap or Vector formats and it
fits well for the apps that do one of the other.
As for multi-media, I have always thought collecting the apps that do
'Audio-Video' together. Including all the burning and ripping and video editing
tools. If we embrace the term 'Media' as the toplevel, then I think
Media
Audio
CD/DVD Tools
Graphics
Video
has a logical flow.
Network (I
think Network is a subfolder of Settings, and the Toplevel should be
'Internet' or 'Inet')
How about just "Connections"? Or, "Sharing"? Settings
I like SUSE's "Personal Settings" to distinguish their many from the many
system
settings.
System
User-Apps
Seems like department of redundancy to me.
Lastly, the 'quicklaunch' app
Similar to Windows quick launch. Certain things everyone needs frequently ought
to be there, while the main menu needs as many of either "most recently used"
or
most frequently used" as fits without exploding the main menu into a second column.