GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 312603
more descriptive information please
Last modified: 2006-01-05 18:12:05 UTC
I think it might improve the educational value of Atomix if both the chemical name and the ordinary name were included (and possibly other information) for example: H2O, Water C2H5OH, Ethanol, Alcohol CH4, Methane Ideally the chemical names would be typeset to use proper subscripts for the numbers. It might even be worth including a Comment containing extra information and description of not just the common name but also what the substance is used for.
I should have included the wikipedia page for Methane because I actually had to look it up (I've never studied chemistry so this is all reasonably new and interesting for me) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane The bottom of the page lists other "Alkanes" which presumably might be part of the other information worth mentioning and I want to leave myself a reminder in case I decide to make new levels out of any of the chemicals listed there.
Sorry for the long time it took me to implement it. It is now fixed in CVS HEAD, which will be in GNOME 2.14. Enjoy!