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Bug 81210 - The hig should recommend the term "shortcut" instead of "launcher"
The hig should recommend the term "shortcut" instead of "launcher"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other other
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-05-09 06:46 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:20 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-05-09 06:46:47 UTC 
The equivalent of .desktop file in windows is a shortcut. I think this is a
better term and that gnome should use it instead of launcher in nautilus
and the panel
Comment 1 Christian Rose 2002-05-10 18:28:09 UTC 
Perhaps this should be changed in the GNOME Glossary rather than in
the HIG?
Comment 2 Pier Luigi Fiorini 2002-05-12 15:11:24 UTC 
When I think "shortcut", I mean keyboard shortcuts.
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-05-13 04:19:58 UTC 
ok i read the style guide. I was unaware that the style guide
recommended shortcut for keyboard shortcuts at the time that i filed
this bug.

I'm going to mark won't fix based on this. However i do think the
generic term launcher is bad, since launchers can be links,
application launchers, other stuff too...</sigh>...perhaps the create
launcher dialog needs to be divided up more, so that the term launcher
is only used for application launchers and not for links etc.