GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 459546
Rename Salut to Bonjour/Zeroconf/Link Local/something else in the interface
Last modified: 2009-08-27 13:57:53 UTC
While Salut is a good name, I think most user won't understand what it is. Using Bonjour is probably not a good idea, since it's trademarked. Zeroconf or Link Local are two other possibilities, but people might not understand those... So, I don't have any good solution here. Another approach would be to talk with all other projects and make them switch to Salut. Opinions?
The idea behind zeroconf technology ( which is the basis of salut/bonjour ) is to make this work out of the box, so maybe this would make sense to have it enabled by default if everything is installed ? Since there is nothing to configure beside the account name, and since having 2 link local account doesn't make sense, maybe we can skip this step completly.
Michael > That's part of bug #447467 In the contact list we now have a default group for salut contacts: "People nearby" What about something like "neighborhood" for the display name of the salut profile?
Both are fine for me, because they give the notion of local people. I would perhaps prefer "neighborhood".
hm, the problem is profiles are not yet translated so it won't be understood by non-english peoples.
I will fix this when #517217 will be fixed.
Perhaps: "Local network Jabber"? What does iChat call this?
iChat calls it bonjour chat iirc. Bonjour is apples branding for all their link-local stuff.. Link-local messaging is the correct technical term, people nearby or neighbourhood might be the best term for users.. While it's great for a developer to be able to use multiple salut account a normal user will *never* need this. The solution Gajim has is to have a little tick box saying ``link-local messaging'', which is probably closer to a correct solution. Although you might want to configure your first/last name and the announced e-mail/jid.
We agreed that we should use "People Nearby" everywhere in the UI.
This has been fixed in master.