GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 108214
Window menu needs a better name :)
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:38 UTC
I'm afraid we're going to have to call this something other than the "window menu applet", as that's too readily confused with what the user docs currently call the window manager menu (the one on each window that contains Minimize/Resize/Close etc.) Any suggestions? I forget what it's called in MacOS, probably just the Finder menu or something equally unhelpful...
Suggestions ? "Window Menu" *was* my suggestion :-)
Adding some bugsquad keywords and lowering severity to minor (I don't thnik it makes the applet unusable :)).
I do. In terms of adding it as a new applet to a blank panel... if you can't find it, you can't add it.
"Window List Menu" might make it obvious that it does the same sort of thing as the window list applet, but then again might be so similar it's confusing... "Window Switcher Menu" or "Application Switcher Menu" also spring to mind. It looks like it's called the "Application Menu" in MacOS, but obviously we can't call it that :)
Eugene's comments in bug #119263: When what is now the Window Menu applet was on the Menu Panel, we referred to it as the window list icon - it shows a list of your windows. But we already have a Window List applet. Some suggestions for a new name: - List Windows applet - View Windows applet - Display Windows applet None of these names really leap out, but I think that the first most accurately describes the functionality.
*** Bug 119263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Another suggestion: - Window Index That's probably overstating what this applet does. Maybe one of these: - Window Selector - Window Chooser
In a mail to me, Calum suggested: - Window Switcher
I vote for "Window Selector". "Window Switcher" suggests that this is a parallel applet to Workspace Switcher, which it isn't. Can we resolve this soon? At present, the UG has to be a little ambiguous about this applet to avoid confusion with the Window Menu.
The applet provides more than a list or a menu, in that you can select which window you want. Therefore, Window Selector seems an appropriate name. Gets my vote too. Pat
I've nothing against "Window Selector" either, although to be honest I'm unconvinced that it "provides more than a menu"... it looks like a menu and it behaves like a menu (since it's just a regular GtkMenubar stuck on a panel), so I would wager most users are going to call it a menu anyway whatever we decide :)
It's more than a menu 'cos it's an applet, not a permanent fixture. Not much of a difference, I know, but enough to merit a different name. Pat
Ok, let's call it "Window selector", then. Mark: what should be done when renaming an applet? Do we want to rename the source file too?
No, I'd just change the name and description in the .server.in.in file, change the about dialog, update the accessible name (atk_object_set_name) and that should do it nicely.
This is fixed in HEAD: the applet is now called Window Selector. Mark: I did not change the iid, but it might be better to add a compatibility iid and change the current iid. Dunno.