Suggest a change from Druid to Assistant

[Mike Evans]

On Thursday January 7 2010 16:01:24 Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.idps.co.uk> writes:
> > I would like to suggest a change from the word Druid to Assistant as
> > specified in the Gnome HIG Human Interface Guidelines 2.2 guidelines.
> > This has been mentioned in bug 602051.  As I said there I've nothing
> > against Druids, being a Celt myself, but I think in order to help gain
> > acceptance to a wider user base then adopting a standard terminology
> > may make a small difference.
> 
> Are you suggestion word/documentation changes?  Or actually changing
> from GnomeDruid to GtkAssistant?  The former is possible sooner, the
> latter will need to wait until after we branch 2.4 (once 2.4 is ready)
> because GtkAssistant wasn't introduced into a recent Gtk release, too
> recent for our current dependency requirements.
> 
I was merely suggesting word/documentation changes rather that a whole change 
of methodology.  Because anything that encourages or eases a transition to 
good open source software should be a good thing.  I think that most users 
really don't care about any underlying ethos as long as it works and has a 
small(ish) learning curve so maybe using familiar terms would help the 
transition.

Mike
  




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