Re: [Usability] "Finish" vs. "Close" in gnome-control-center dialogs

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 22:55 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
--- Rodney Dawes <dobey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 16:45 +0100, Joachim Noreiko
wrote:

http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/gnome-glossary-desktop.html

These are guidelines, and it uses appropriate
terminology where
appropriate. The guidelines are ignorant of the
separation of image and
color for the desktop background. These two items
are not mutually
inclusive into a single object and term.

Also: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A21F13DDC

Practically every movie site, and theme site, calls
desktop backgrounds,
"wallpaper".

Just because Microsoft chose to use that term, and
everybody is following, doesn't mean we should.
OS X doesn't even use a term in the preferences,
except in the desktop context menu, where is says
'desktop background'.

Point-in-case. Microsoft doesn't use the term Wallpaper in their config
dialog either. The tab in the Display Properties is titled "Desktop",
and the label for the list is titled "Background:". So, no, it isn't
just following Microsoft. It's following the terminology used where
people actually go to get these things. And I think a search result of
17.x million vs. 2.x million is a sufficiently large difference to
justify the use of the term. Surely 15 million people can't be wrong.
But, just as I think blindly following Microsoft is a bad idea, so is
blindly following what Apple does with Mac OS. We need to innovate on
our own, and do better than both of them.

-- dobey

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