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Bug 395129 - "GNOME Control Center" is not a good name for the .desktop file
"GNOME Control Center" is not a good name for the .desktop file
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: shell
2.17.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
: 395857 397493 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-01-10 19:38 UTC by Vincent Untz
Modified: 2010-09-29 13:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Change Shell .desktop name from GNOME Control Center to Control Center (423 bytes, patch)
2007-01-12 19:38 UTC, Alberto Ruiz 		committed Details | Review

Description Vincent Untz 2007-01-10 19:38:10 UTC 
I don't think we should have GNOME there, and I don't know whether people understand what "Control Center" means. I know that it doesn't seem right in french...
Comment 1 Thomas Wood 2007-01-10 23:05:13 UTC 
Confirmed - I have suggested we rename it to simply "Control Center", but I agree this is less than optimal. Obviously, it is similar to "Control Panel" on Windows, so I suspect to some people may be obvious. Mac OS X calls it simply "System Preferences", which I suppose makes sense when you take the view of it being a set of preferences of your system.
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2007-01-12 18:15:17 UTC 
*** Bug 395857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Alberto Ruiz 2007-01-12 19:34:05 UTC 
"Control Center" would be an easy change since this string already exist in the .po files. We can discuss a deeper change further. But "GNOME Control Center" just don't follow the HIG.
Comment 4 Alberto Ruiz 2007-01-12 19:38:08 UTC 
Created attachment 80135 [details] [review]
Change Shell .desktop name from GNOME Control Center to Control Center
Comment 5 Jens Granseuer 2007-01-12 21:15:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Mac OS X calls it simply
> "System Preferences", which I suppose makes sense when you take the view of it
> being a set of preferences of your system.

I agree "Control Center" could (and should) be improved upon, but as long as we have a "System" category at least, "System Preferences" doesn't cut it, IMHO.

How about just "Preferences", or maybe even "Settings"?
Comment 6 Rodrigo Moya 2007-01-13 11:10:21 UTC 
I like 'Preferences' or 'Settings'
Comment 7 Alberto Ruiz 2007-01-13 11:22:52 UTC 
System->Preferences makes sense for me. In fact is the name of the current menu entry.

Can this be fixed for 2.18 yet?
Comment 8 Thomas Wood 2007-01-16 10:07:08 UTC 
Let's at least get this fixed to remove the GNOME part of the name. We can then take a little longer to decide if there is a better name entirely.
Comment 9 Thomas Wood 2007-01-17 17:02:36 UTC 
I've changed the name to Control Center for now, until we can reach a decision on a better name.
Comment 10 Jens Granseuer 2007-01-17 19:31:46 UTC 
*** Bug 397493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Matthew East 2009-10-04 11:25:46 UTC 
Has this discussion progressed? I think "Settings" is ideal.
Comment 12 Bastien Nocera 2010-09-29 13:21:40 UTC 
It's now called "System Settings" in its title bar, and the desktop file is hidden by default.