GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333496
Misleading/difficult name - change g-v-m.desktop.in?
Last modified: 2012-03-05 23:24:24 UTC
I was updating the Danish translation for Gnome Volume Manager and found it very hard to find an appropriate translation for the string "Volume Manager"in g-v-m.desktop.in. Both "volume" and "manage" are very fuzzy, almost information-devoid words without a clear corresponding phrase in Danish. I also couldn't help noticing that apparently g-v-m now also supports all sorts of other external stuff besides sticks, disks and discs. So the current name appears to be a bit misleading. I think "volume" is difficult for the average native English-speaking user to understand too. Hence, I humbly suggest changing the user-visible name and description in gnome-volume-manager.desktop.in. What about "External Media and Devices" or simply "External Devices" and then "Preferences for removable devices and media" or something along these lines?
Beside, it's confusing: thing of gnome-volume-manager vs volume-applet.
There is the same problem in German, even the English name isn't very good. I would suggest some think like "Media and Hotplug Devices" or just "Plug and Play"
I keep getting people on the RH bugzilla telling me about "gnome-volume-manager" when they mean "gnome-volume-control". Furthermore, gnome-volume-manager handles more than disk volumes nowadays. gnome-hardware-hotplug-manager?
What about a shorter "gnome-hotplug-manager"?
Yes, "gnome-hotplug-manager" sound good.
One more vote to "gnome-hotplug-manager".
I think gnome-hotplug might be a better name than gnome-hotplug-manager, at least for the package itself.
Jeffrey, I agree. gnome-hotplug for the package, gnome-hotplug-manager for the daemon and gnome-hotplug-properties (or -preferences?) for the capplet.
According to its maintainers, "g-v-m hasn't seen a change in three years, it definitely qualifies as unmaintained." It is highly unlikely that there will be any further active development (especially as functionality has been superseded by other modules). Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.